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...news is that tuition, room and board charges will probably go over $8000 for the academic year 1979-80--a 9 to 9.5-per-cent increase over this year's total...
Everyone who last had a say in the decision to limit the rise in this year's board charge did so because they believed the Food Services Department would have a surplus, which could make up for the scant 2.3-per-cent increase in students' bills. Unfortunately, food prices don't listen to Harvard administrators...
Generally, about 30 per cent of the early admission applicants are admitted, compared to the 17 per-cent admission rate for the candidates as a whole, Fitz-simmons said. About 85 per cent of the early admits accept admission, as compared to about 75 per cent of the total group, he added
Kaufmann and other University officials said they felt the government would be tougher on wage guidelines, keeping Harvard close to the 7-per-cent ceiling outlined in Carter's program
...current City Clerk William J. Donovan, a political antagonist of Marie Howe and who admits having "no great love" for the Howes, had his property assessment raised by Howe from $10,600 to $14,000 in 1976. Howe says the property was previously under-valued, and that the 40-per-cent assessment increase was long overdue. But the property itself had no buildings that could have increased in value. "The land was vacant," Donovan remembers. "He couldn't justify the assessment." Donovan, too, received an abatement from the rest of the city's assessors...