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...moved from cold to warm, but I wouldn't say we're hot," John M. Blum '43, a junior Fellow on the Corporation, said last Sunday. Burr called the compilation of the list a step to the "second plateau...
...Maybe we made a mild miscalculation," Burr admitted. "I thought there would be more student groups that would put themselves together. But the reaction we've gotten has been both friendly and helpful. I was in college myself at the time Conant was chosen. I remember I was deeply and completely uninterested...
...name of former Attorney General Ramsey Clark has been mentioned in almost all student meetings with Corporation members. When Lowell House students asked why his name was not being considered, Burr reiterated the Corporation's intention to find a man with "scholarly accomplishments." (Clark has no teaching experience and went through college, law school, and a master's program in history in three years...
...Burr's response, confirmed by other Corporation members in separate House meetings ("The problem is no one respects Nate as a scholar," one Fellow said) narrows the earlier and broader Corporation search to one for a man "with a primary academic commitment." It also contains the key for separating some mere notables from serious contenders in the maze of 69 names...
...master list is heavily weighted toward college administrators, primarily because the two most pressing problems facing the new president will be fund-raising and a bureaucratic re-organization of the president's office. "Most medium size high schools have a bigger staff than the Harvard administration," Burr has commented on several occasions. Both Princeton and Yale, comparatively smaller Ivy schools, have larger administrative staffs, and the Corporation would like to pattern its new arrangement after theirs, with clearly defined areas of concern and authority among major Massachusetts Hall administrators...