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...have been abandoned. The council also recognizes that there is a huge unmet demand for student group funding. This year we have received nearly 1,000 grant requests. While we have been able to adequately fund many grant requests under $250, larger requests generally receive only a fraction of the funding needed. For example, grant requests ranging from $750 to $1000 have received only 40 percent funding on average. According to an analysis by Finance Committee chair Teo P. Nicolais ’06, the proposed increase would allow us to fund 90 percent of need for requests...
This loss hits Harvard’s sciences the hardest, Summers said in an interview yesterday. “The higher fraction of our scientific graduate students are from countries sort of like China where these problems are particularly serious,” he said...
Concentration choice, class and faculty size, interdisciplinary work and promotion of international experience are only a fraction of the ideas that have been discussed in the curricular review meetings this year...
...monetary value of each award has increased over time, it has not kept up with rising prices—$12 billion dollars is needed to restore the purchasing power of Pell Grants to its level in the 1970s. This is a lot of money, but it constitutes only a fraction of the dividends and capital gains component of the Bush...
Then there are the people who claim that a ring is a constant reminder of the effort, accomplishment and enjoyment of one’s college years. Yet can’t we get even more poignant Harvard memorabilia for a tiny fraction of the cost? Why not keep photos in our wallets that remind us of college? Instead of pictures of babies and girlfriends, your wallet could contain photos of keg stands, late-night studying in Lamont and the moment you receive your diploma. At no cost, you can put nostalgic photos on your computer’s wallpaper...