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Washington will give Swanger $5155 more than the 1966 budget to incorporate a residential element into the program's summer schedule. According to Swanger, this "residential component" will take the form of "cooperative living ventures" on the Harvard campus for the 52 Cambridge high school students in the program...
Upward Bound will rent a small house from Radcliffe, Swanger said Sunday. About 12 students will live there for each of four two-week periods with three teachers. The students will cook their own meals, clean the house, and--within limits--establish their own behavioral standards...
...would be unreal to take Cambridge students away from their homes for the whole summer," Swanger said. "We do not want to replace their homes with Upward Bound; we want to incorporate Upward Bound into their home lives...
...Swanger accepted the government's $5000 increase by telephone yesterday, but he said the Harvard program will have to "tighten its belt," More books will have to be shared, fewer trips will be taken--a proposed summer excursion to Montreal has already been cancelled--and the students may undertake fund-raising operations like talent shows and dances...
Your January 17 issue carried a lead story on Upward Bound in which David Swanger said that I could not provide a substantial increased in Federal funds for Harvard's Upward Bound program because of "political considerations...