Leaner Times at Harvard: No Cookies

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<p>[No</a> More Pancakes or Free Sweatsuits: How Harvard Is Cutting Back - The Choice Blog - NYTimes.com](<a href=“http://thechoice.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/10/08/no-more-oatmeal-or-free-sweatsuits-how-harvard-is-cutting-back/]No”>No More Pancakes or Free Sweatsuits: How Harvard Is Cutting Back - The New York Times)</p>

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Leaner Times at Harvard: No Cookies
By ABBY GOODNOUGH</p>

<p>CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — Gone are the hot breakfasts in most dorms and the pastries at Widener Library. Varsity athletes are no longer guaranteed free sweat suits, and just this week came the jarring news that professors will go without cookies at faculty meetings.</p>

<p>By Harvard standards, these are hard times. Not Dickensian hard times, but with the value of its endowment down by almost 30 percent, the world’s richest university is learning to live with less.

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