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...Yale ranked third in fundraising with just over $433 million, while fellow Ivy Leaguers including the University of Pennsylvania ($409 million) and Cornell ($406 million) filled out the top five, according to the results of the Voluntary Support of Education survey, issued annually by the Council for Aid to Education...
...March, Harvard will announce its tuition and fee increases for the 2007-2008 academic year. If past practice holds, this year’s hike will again exceed inflation. There will be an official explanation pointing to rising costs, the improved quality of education, and increases in financial aid. Little controversy will ensue, for students and their families will figure that, in the long run, the price of a Harvard education will more than pay for itself...
Second: Stop treating undergraduate loans as “financial aid.” If a college student and his family cannot afford tuition, then the difference should be covered by a reduction in tuition and fees, not by deferring payment until after graduation. Paying for this would be pocket change for a university as wealthy as Harvard...
Zoller notched a game-high 17 points, and with the aid of fellow senior big man Steve Danley’s double-digit scoring effort, Penn was able to shoot 10-19 from the floor and 15-18 from the free-throw line in the second half—signs of a tired Harvard squad but also one getting dominated in the front court...
Norman K. Mailer ’43, one of the world’s most eccentric and widely acclaimed authors, might have required two canes to walk into First Church in Cambridge last Thursday, but once he began to speak, he needed no one’s aid to keep the audience mesmerized. Though ostensibly there to speak about his new novel, “The Castle in the Forest,” the two-time Pulitzer winner weighed in on everything from Adolf Hitler’s genitalia and Hillary Clinton’s buttocks to the Iraq...