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Harvard Honors Major Capital Campaign Donors

Presidential Panel

Another of Saturday's panels saw top administrators from several other universities come to Harvard to honor their peer school. Present in the panel moderated by Rudenstine were Yale Provost Alison F. Richard, University of California at Berkeley Chancellor Robert M. Berdahl, University of Michigan President Lee C. Bollinger and Cornell President emeritus Frank H.T. Rhodes.

All congratulated Rudenstine and the donors on the campaign's success, but Rhodes said the campaign was only now entering its hardest stage.

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"The difficult phase of this campaign is going to be spending this huge amount of public confidence wisely," said Rhodes, a veteran of two capital campaigns.

Berdahl recalled Rudenstine setting the bar at a million dollars a day during the project's early stages.

In the future, he said, Harvard could be trying to raise $25 billion.

"Pity the president who will be raising $10 million a day," he said.

The group also discussed whether technology will eventually make "relics" of the great research universities.

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