Word: attract
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...object to the report. Bok's reticence is inexcusable; the objections to the report are well-founded. The Afro Department is understaffed and desperately needs the research-gathering help an official tie with the institute could provide, in order to increase the quality of its teaching and to attract high-quality black scholars...
Needless to say, the University was pretty happy when the plan was accepted. Perhaps because it was November, Bok and other administrators said things like "Today's letter of acceptance is a mandate for us to continue--and in some cases, accelerate--our efforts to attract and include women and minority groups at all levels of University activity...
...Harvard's credit, there has been an effort made recently to attract big money for building at Radcliffe. In fact, Dr. Chase N. Peterson '52, vice president for alumni affairs and development, and President Bok gave Ward M. Canaday '07 a personal guided tour around Radcliffe last year before he decided that his money for construction belonged in the Yard. The plans that were circulated for massive building on the eastern side of the Radcliffe Quad are still posted in the basement of South House's Cabot Hall. Undergraduates may see the Radcliffe dormitory area and the River Houses...
Visibility has been the keynote of NAM's campaign to rally support for the continuing strike. The group called for demonstrations in front of Holyoke Center at noon in an effort to attract not only students but also Harvard employees on their lunch break. Support from these employees was moderate at best, but the rallies still managed to attract between between 120 and 150 sympathizers. A third demonstration of 80 pickets greeted alumni donation-givers as they gathered for dinner at the Faculty Club...
Kiely's program, which is only in the blueprint stages, would attempt to attract lawyers, writers, politicians, and teachers to live for a certain term in the Houses, where they would become an integral part of House education. Indeed, the Houses provide a unique opportunity for exposing students to people who have received their education in the world outside. Some of the courses to be taught next year in the vitalized House seminar program are intended to make use of such an approach. For instance, a seminar on the "Legal and Ethical Problems in Medicine" will employ a staff...