Word: yield
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...business school for Central America in Nicaragua under the auspices of his Alliance for Progress program, Harvard has played a leading role in aiding Third World nations. Most of this assistance came in the form of counsulting services for specific projects, such as how to increase crop yield in a particular region...
Last year the yield of Black students was down 16 percent, with only 56.7 percent of the accepted 171 students coming to Harvard, David L. Evans, senior admissions official, said last week. He added that this year's unofficial yield of 53.2 percent is even more disappointing since the admissions office had revamped and tried to strengthen its entire minority-recruiting program this year...
Carey said that the percentage of other minorities accepted Harvard did not decline this year, and that the yield of Hispanics and Puerto Ricans went up significantly following a high-powered attempt at recruiting those students...
Harvard's main competition for Black students is with Yale. Princeton, Brown, and Stanford universities. Among those four colleges, only Stanford's Black yield increased this year. In fact, the Stanford yield has gone up more than 15 percent in the past three years. Fred Hargadon, dean of admissions and financial aid there, said yesterday...
...article to be printed within the formal confines of the paper--a reflection of wisdom, sound judgment, and GOOD TASTE! Also, in the edition on Thursday, May 12, the article. "Faculty Council Hears Minority Reps," by Michael J. Abramowitz and Holly A. Idelson, and Rebecca J. Joseph's "Black Yield Low Again This Year" demonstrates not only good reporting, but sympathetic understanding of the issues involved. All manner of praise and acclamation is in accord!!! L. Gerome Smith...