Word: attract
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...W.E.B. DuBois Institute for Afro-American research offers one of the few hopes for easing the myriad problems the University has with the hiring and recruitment of black people and the teaching of Afro-American Studies. If set up properly, the institute will attract top-quality black graduate students and professors, alleviating a shortage at Harvard that is now shameful. It will establish Harvard as a leader in the field of Afro-American Studies and strengthen the Afro-American Studies Department with an excellent research facility...
Naturally, the AHA is always trying to find ways to involve more alumni, particularly now that economic problems have made the private gift more important. A drive is underway to attract younger alumni to counteract the long-standing tendency of alumni to "disappear until their tenth reunion," as Shultz puts it. Maurice Lazarus '37, former AHA president, already sees a "growing interest on the part of more recent alumni," and the AHA is considering forming a New Class Officers' Organization that would bring together young alumni between reunion years. Shultz imagines this group will offer six week seminars...
This year for example, nearly $5 million was raised for the proposed $26 million Soldiers Field sport complex by such an approach. A campaign for construction and renovation of athletic facilities was staged to attract support from a select group of friends of Harvard athletics who do not wish to give money for other purposes. This approach, Peterson maintains, will not hurt funding for scholarships and educational resources...
Ever eager to attract new depositors and enlarge their assets, American banks have instituted such patron-pleasing competitive innovations as longer hours, credit cards and robot tellers that will take deposits and, in some instances, disburse money 24 hours a day. Soon customers across the country may also be able to make savings and loan or bank deposits and withdrawals in supermarkets and other stores as a result of a court ruling that removed legal obstacles to a pioneering experiment in Nebraska...
Sacks said the Law School has made "a very strong effort" to attract minorities and cited the appointment of two black scholars to visiting professorships for next year...