"The focus was getting the schools funded first," said Elizabeth "Beppie" C. Huidekoper, vice president for finance. Now that the schools have surpassed their goals, Provost Harvey V. Fineberg '67 and others will pick up the slack.

The University has only raised about $35 million of the $90 million needed to construct the Knafel Center for Government and International Studies--most of which was donated by Sidney R. Knafel '52. FAS is still pushing ahead with construction plans.

Similarly, Harvard has only raised 88 percent of its goal for its libraries, yet the University is proceeding with a $52 million renovation of Widener Library all the same.

"People don't seem to give money to libraries," Rudenstine told The Crimson. "Maybe by the end of three years, we'll have raised all the money for it."

Endowed professorships, each costing $3.5 million, are only 66 percent completed. FAS, which seeks 40 new endowed chairs, has only been able to raise funds for 25 of them.

"It is an area where it requires a certain amount of education as to why additional faculty are crucial to the University," said Leah R. McIntosh, director of development planning.

And Harvard's $200 million science initiatives lack the appeal of other campaign projects and have proved difficult to get on track, largely because "people tend to give to people," as William H. Boardman Jr., associate vice president for development, puts it.