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...undergraduate admission office announces that about 80 percent of students admitted to the Class of 2004 will attend Harvard, giving the College its highest yield since the early 1970s. Officials credit the College's generous financial aid program and successful pre-frosh weekend as factors in Harvard's impressive yield, which is consistently the highest of the nation's selective colleges...
...most part, evidence seems to bear this assertion out: student retention rates are the highest in the nation, almost all undergraduates live on campus, admissions yield rates continue to climb and giving by alumni is extremely generous...
...very generous in sending funds," Shannon said last week. "I got a check from him this morning...
...borrowed a lot of stuff--everyone was very generous," she said. "They were like, 'Have a sleeping bag or backpack or whatever...
...demanding director; he'd fire actors and, before the sentence was finished, rehire them. Yet he was as loved as he was respected. Generous and easily weepy, he was also, in Guinness' words, "brilliantly tactless," dropping the brick of an insult that he could make vanish with a blithe demurral. In his 90s, when he might have sat at home with his lover Martin Hensler and his beloved Times crosswords, this old theatrical cat was often on a film set, spinning anecdotes of the legendary actor-managers Henry Irving and Herbert Beerbohm Tree. "When I was young," he said...