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University of Pennsylvania officials projected a 15-per-cent increase; Princeton officials have set a 14.7-per-cent hike; and Yale administrators expect about a 13-per-cent rise...
Tuition, room and board costs have risen steadily--from a 7.3-per-cent rise in 1977 to 14.9 per cent last year--due mainly to double-digit inflation rates and skyrocketing energy prices, Harvard officials said...
Although inflation decreased significantly last year--from a 12.4-per-cent rate in 1980 to 8.9 per cent in 1981--student fees continue to rise at a quicker pace than inflation. "As long as endowment income is distributed at a rate that will not keep pace with inflation, student charges will go up faster than inflation," Thomas O'Brien, the University's financial vice president, said after the University's annual financial report was released earlier this year...
...McLaughlin and his troops later agreed, the Cornell game never should have come down to a last-second basket. Harvard led through the early part of the second half, but mainly because of 29-per-cent shooting by the ice-cold...
Despite fragmented moments of capable and tenacious basketball, the Crimson lacked vital fundamental skills throughout the game. Freshman Andrea Mainelli dished off the only Harvard assist of the entire game, and the team is shooting at a sobering 35-per-cent field goal ratio...