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...start of the men's and women's seasons. A special game was slated for the men against Stanford University, during which the Briggs Cage court was to be dedicated. Stanford had been chosen--at least in part--because President Bok used to play for them, says John P. Reardon '60, director of athletics...
Even the Urban Institute's Clotfelter agrees that Reardon may have him here. While he does not buy the argument that his study's models do not apply to Harvard, at least as far as the numbers go, he admits that "we haven't filled in for loyalty." In fact, Clotfelter goes on to say, if he were in the development office his strategy now would be to appeal more strongly than ever to alumni love for Fair Harvard. "If all schools were to appeal to loyalty and their alumni were to respond, then our predictions would be wrong...
...just stopped the world at this point, you could say things are kind of down," Reardon admits. But then he starts talking about how 92 per cent of alumni approached to serve as volunteer fundraisers accepted the challenge. And how unusual it is for any fund drive to be ahead of schedule. And how superbly organized and efficient the solicitation machine is. And how $70 million of the promises have already been made good...
...Then Reardon says, "To a great number of alumni, Harvard means a lot." So if Campaign officials can no longer stress tax breaks when digging for gold, they will always fall back on what they believe is, at least in the mind of alumni, always the overriding consideration regardless of the economic advantages and drawbacks: Harvard itself. At least for now and despite charts and graphs from Washington, they're cautiously optimistic...
...drive, as President Bok said in announcing the project, is "not...to expand the size of the University, but to maintain and enhance its quality." Increasing financial aid to middle-income students and "preventing the erosion of faculty salaries" are two primary goals of the drive, says Thomas M. Reardon, director of University development. Barber says he wholeheartedly supports these two objectives, adding that "if this had been a bricks-and-morter drive, I probably wouldn't have gotten involved...