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DIED. NATHAN PUSEY, 94, president of Harvard who saw the university through the expansionist 1950s and '60s; in New York City. The Iowa-born Harvard alum created "need-blind" admissions and oversaw the near tripling of its administrative and teaching staff--including many women. He came under fire in 1969, when he called in police to oust from a campus building protesters from the radical Students for a Democratic Society. Pusey announced his retirement the next year...
...College, students are admitted on a need-blind basis. The school pledges to make Harvard affordable through direct aid, work study, loans and other school-sponsored means. But Summers has not said what putting the graduate schools on the College’s level would practically mean...
Multiple administration sources said it was not clear what form need-blind admissions and full need-based aid at the graduate schools would take...
...Universities are in competition with each other for the most talented applicants and often use financial incentives to draw promising students. Harvard does not offer need-blind aid. However, outside the Ivy League, universities have added assets to offer applicants, including trips abroad and spending money...
...Senate voted last week by a narrow margin to increase federal funding for college tuition by $250 billion over the next 10 years. But the increase will be mostly symbolic for need-blind colleges like Harvard...