Word: athleticism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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What kind of revisions? For one, the hockey team will be playing all this year's scheduled home games at Boston University's Walter Brown Arena, because renovations on Harvard's Watson Rink will keep it out of action through the end of the season. The Athletic Department had originally...
The failure of the fund-raising drive has created problems in all phases of the athletic complex plan. The $13-million raised from the drive financed construction of the first phase--Blodgett Pool and the Indoor Track and Tennis (ITT) facility--but does not supply an endowment to cover the...
The second phase of the complex was to include the new hockey rink, renovations and an addition to Dillon Field House and conversion of Watson Rink into a basketball arena. Reardon said funding problems forced the Athletic Department to drop plans for the Dillon addition and the new hockey rink...
Over the last few years, college fundraising drives have suffered. Harvard's drive for the athletic complex faced particular problems because its success hinged on receiving a number of large contributions; the general fund drive strategy of hitting a large number of alumni for relatively small donations would not work...
The officials planned to carefully solicit large contributions from likely sources and send mailings to former Harvard athletes. In the first year, donations were coming in at a good rate, and department officials expressed optimism about the drive. By 1977, however, the drive had stalled and various University officials began...