Word: student
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Qualities such as student personality and secondary school background weighed heavily in the system. Students whose characters ranged from "outstanding" to "innocuous" to "possible problem" were blended into the houses. Meanwhile, each of four categories of high schools--"traditional preparatory," Exeter and Andover, "other" private schools and public high schools--had to be represented in each house...
...Strong Council" would get the impression that there is no good reason to vote against the current referendum on the election of the Undergraduate Council chair. Worse still, one might think that the opponents of the referendum are motivated by a perverse desire for a weak, undemocratic student government...
...then tries to justify this high increase by blaming the Reagan administration's attempts to slash federal funds for higher education and emphasizing the high cost of maintaining competitive faculty salaries and upgrading the University's physical facilities. Financial aid officials then assure the two-thirds of the student body who receive financial aid that their needs will...
Granted, as officials in the University's financial aid office are quick to point out, the immediate effects of the tuition hike will be offset by increases in grants to students. Unfortunately, however, the effects of a 6.5 percent tuition hike are not quite so easy to gauge. A student from a modest-to low-income background may very well be irrevocably dissuaded from applying to Harvard by the news of another large tuition hike...
...have called in the past on the University to dip further into the interest on its $4.8 billion endowment to ensure that lower- and middle-income students will not be forced to choose between assuming large amounts of debt after graduation and attending Harvard. Clearly, the costs of running one of the world's preeminent research universities are enormous, but the University must make sure that it lives up to its commitment to offer education to students from all backgrounds. At the very least, the University should provide the student body with a credible, specific summary of where exactly...