The professorships--$3.5 million each--were at 51 percent of the goal.
The President's University Fund, for which the University is attempting to raise $235 million during the campaign, will sponsor University-wide professorships, project ADAPT and interfaculty initiatives. It lagged behind at the 59 percent mark in June 1998.
Overall, the University inched 7 percent closer to its goal by June 1999, leading University administrators to talk with confidence about finishing the campaign.
And recently alumni and administrators have anticipated a successful finish.
"I'm sure that they've got it," said one alumnus last week. It's a question of "whenever they want to announce it," the alumnus said.
A New Face
The capital campaign has heralded changes in the way Harvard does its business.
The first University-wide fundraising drive, the campaign has been a centralizing force on a traditionally decentralized University. Schools have coordinated their efforts and looked at the University as a whole, not simply their own schools.
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