Word: forme
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...received its elegant invitations to attend Harvard and those who accepted took on a financial burden that soon will total at least $40,000. If present trends continue, more than half Harvard's students will not be able to pay the full amount and will receive some form of aid. Harvard has continued to marshal its considerable internal resources to allow all qualified students to attend the University. These days, however, Harvard is increasingly looking to the federal government to reduce the importance of money in determining the company of educated...
...direct aid is still the primary function of the office of financial aid. About 2200 Harvard and 950 Radcliffe students received some form of aid this academic year and this amount will increase in 1979-80. Total direct aid to students, excluding loans and student employment, will reach about $9.9 million next year, topping this year's record total by about...
...Schlesinger Library, brought Gerda Lerner, director of women's studies at Sarah Lawrence College, to Harvard this year where she poked more holes in the idea of women's studies as a concentration. Warning students that pressuring administrators for a concentration could backfire, she said that colleges forced to form Afro-American Studies departments made isolated islands of the new departments and then ignored them. "The school left them there. They were outside the university and when the departments began to falter from starvation, the schools said, 'we gave you what you asked for,'" Lerner said...
...controversy may have benefitted the community. Allison plans this summer to form a group to consider how the K-School can use what it has learned from the Engelhard controversy to protect the interests of donors while simultaneously taking into account the positions of all members of the community. This gifts committee will draw from not only members of the ad hoc committee, but also experienced fundraisers. Allison says he doubts it will ever come up with a definitive statement on gifts. Such a statement coincides with President Bok's position on the ethical implications of gifts, which suggests that...
...CHUL meeting on boycotts only confused the matter further, with students and administrators accusing one another of misrepresentation. Nevertheless, a student-faculty Ad Hoc Committee on Consumer Boycotts emerged form the meeting, headed by Archie C. Epps III, dean of students. The committee recommendation contains a four-point proposal: (1) the University should promptly identify products bought from a company or subsidiary of a company about which an organization is concerned; (2) the organization interested in a boycott should report its intentions to the appropriate Faculty committee (in the case of undergraduate boycotts, CHUL) and present to the committee both...