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...next title run.“It was a fantastic group of players. The team chemistry was the best I’ve ever experienced,” Cahow said. “It’s so easy to go to the rink and give 100 percent when you really care about the people you’re playing with.”—Staff writer Kate Leist can be reached at kleist@fas.harvard.edu...
...second concern exists: At four-year colleges, approximately 15 percent of students take out private loans instead of federal ones. Private lenders can offer more money than federal loans, but also charge much higher interest rates, leaving students in substantial debt. A promising effort in Washington D.C. this year was spearheaded by Senator Edward M. Kennedy ’56 and other leading Democrats to increase both the number of federal Pell Grants available to college students and raise the maximum size of those awards. The proposed bill, called the “Strengthening Student...
...baccalaureate address to the Class of 2008 in Memorial Church today, Faust focused on the unease that many Harvard students feel in taking lucrative positions in finance or consulting. Thirty-nine percent of seniors who are entering the workforce this year have jobs in one of those fields, according to a Crimson survey released today...
...Consulting firms and financial-sector companies, which use aggressive recruiting tactics to woo students, won 39 percent of workforce-bound seniors, down from 47 percent last year. This year, students are gravitating in larger numbers to the arts, health services, media, and public service...
...Overall, a sluggish economy appears to have made it harder for the Class of 2008 to find employment, with 66 percent of workforce-bound seniors reporting that they have a job lined up after graduation, compared with 73 percent in a similar survey last year...