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Suki Magraw, Radcliffe's top singles entry, succeeded to the second round by default before a 2-6, 6-3, 6-2 defeat. Second singles Rita Funaro, playing despite a week-long cold, suffered her setback in the first round...
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Today's game between Harvard and Columbia marks the 33rd meeting between the Ivy League rivals. Ho hum. The hapless Lions have beaten the Crimson only once in the last 12 years, and that win was by default. The Columbia contest is traditionally the warm-up game for Harvard's ensuing Ivy League schedule, and Crimson teams almost always end up trouncing the Lions. Last year...
Statistics from the Student Loan Office show that Harvard's default rate for 1974 was less than four per cent, compared to a national rate of 14.5 per cent. "There are a lot of people defaulting today," R. Jerrold Gibson, director of the Office of Fiscal Services, said yesterday. The vast majority of defaults take place in vocational schools, Gibson said, where the default rate is in excess of 50 per cent...
...Harvard loan program is on a firm footing," Gibson said. The University draws directly from its endowment for the $37 million in loans it lends to undergraduate and graduate students. The federal government insures against default...