Word: raiser
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Baby Powder. In the event last week, the fund-raiser attracted about 1,500 Democratic donors, who paid from $100 to $5,000 each. But much of the money was retained by the Florida State Committee, and the National Committee picked up only about $300,000-hardly enough to keep it operating for more than a few months. Worried about giving any single Democrat an advantage, Harris devised a dinner agenda without formal speeches. That also avoided dramatizing the fact that no one in the party is the accepted leader or an effective drawing card. Nor was there anything encouraging...
...Ebert is in a difficult position in publicly criticizing the plan for community health delivery at the A.H.C. since the president of the board of trustees of the A.H.C., Stanton Deland, is a member of the medical school's visiting committee, and the chief fund raiser for the A.H.C., Thomas D. Cabot has long-time ties to the Harvard Corporation...
would anyone become a college president? The job requires a peerless fund raiser, diplomat, orator and cop - a man who can tame romantic radicals, soothe rival professors, work ungodly hours and somehow prove his own scholarly prowess...
...problem-raiser, The Master Game is provocative and imaginative material. Its merciless assault on the ego is painfully apt for those of us who get caught up in the intellectual one-upmanship of Harvard. Tagged from grade school as "gifted children," herded together during Orientation Week for pronouncements on how "special" we are glad-handed by proud relatives and deified by guidance counselors. we can use as many reminders of our biological spiritual identity as we can get. If we remember that DeRopp, like the rest of us, has a firmer grasp of the questions than of the answers, reading...
Thus, even in the past decades of university expansion and specialization, Brown preserved a tradition of commitment to undergraduate education. The president of the university was regarded as the leading member of the faculty as well as chief administrator and fund-raiser. Most of the initiative for improvements at Brown came from the president's office...