Word: helpful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Between Murphy and Bill Shrout, a senior freestyler, Harvard is sure of four firsts in almost every meet except Yale, where Don Schollander overshadows everybody. So far this year the combination has been good enough to help the team to a 4-1 record. In the only loss so far, to Army, the duo provided its usual four wins; but the Cadet reserves piled up the seconds and thirds and pulled out the meet...
...Cambridge, meanwhile, Harvard's beleaguered forces may get some help. Despite Coach Floyd Wilson's recent complaint to a reporter that he never gets any material, he may get some help from long-injured forward Barth Royer and presently ineligible Ernie Hardy. Hardy could put some life into the Crimson's defense and rebounding...
...passage before last year, when Senators began feeling pressure from their constituents. However, tax leaders in the House agreed with criticism which had been offered in the Senate, and the Ribicoff bill died in committee. Senate liberals had condemned the plan as "class legislation" since it did nothing to help low-income families, whose tax payments are small. Furthermore, although the tax credit discriminated in favor of middle-income families with children in college, its maximum allowance of $325 would not have helped them very much either...
...disappointed those who saw it as an alternative to endless government grants. High-interest rates in the past two years have made it difficult for students to persuade banks to make loans to them at the six per cent interest rate specified by Congress. Easy money might not help the plan either, since bankers would rather lend their available funds to long-time customers. The loan program also requires a costly amount of paper-work...
...Besides helping individual students with their choice of college, the Bank would reinforce currently strong aid programs at the high-cost colleges like Harvard, which is already searching for new ways to help students meet their bills. If it is coupled with increased public and private aid to universities, the Bank can present one long-term answer to the financial problems besetting higher education...