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THIS WEEK, Harvard will embark on the latest and largest of its fund-raising ventures, a colossal campaign to raise $250 million over five years that officials say is their last recourse to fight inflation. As the campaign charges across the nation, moving from east coast to west, and from big donors to small, it will be easy to sit back and watch the money roll into Harvard's coffers...
...Business School, it's not unusual for professors to prepare documentary films for their courses, often with the help of professional directors. Faculty administrators expect the University's forthcoming $250 million capital campaign to enable some college professors to embark on similar projects with money from a $20 million grab-bag labeled "shaping undergraduate education" in the campaign plans...
...stay on as chief of the company dedicated to recreation as long as his health is hearty, his work is fun and his interest is keen. Says he: "I have told my employees that I intend to retire no later than the year 2000." That way he can embark on a life of leisure one year shy of his 100th birthday...
Shades of the future as more shortages cripple the country? No, this outbreak of hoarding occurred during World War II just before the Government imposed rationing. Now, as the lines at gasoline stations conjure up new visions of shortages, the question again arises whether Americans will embark on more hoarding sprees...
When the 107 returning members of the Radcliffe Class of 1954 arrive at Comstock Hall Wednesday afternoon to embark upon three days of receptions, luncheons, colloquia, special exhibits and performances in honor of the Radcliffe Centennial, they'll find significant changes in their alma mater. Back in the early '50s, Radcliffe was an institution seeminly independent of Harvard, sharing only course instruction, an economy measure forced by war-time pressures. Radcliffe women lived in the dormitories at the Radcliffe Quadrangle, obeyed strict 10 p.m. parietals, and used either the Radcliffe library or Widener, never Lamont. In Widener, they were warned...