Word: burrs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...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...
...least one occasion, Burr has told a group of students and faculty the next president will need at least the experience of being a department chairman. Over 20 candidates have been department chairman; 9 are presently college presidents; 11 are deans; 5 are university chancellors or provosts; another 5 are vice-presidents; and 14 are directors of institutes or university-related projects...
Last week, Burr defended the process, claiming that the Corporation has tried to balance its interviewing and adding that the alternative, more intensive short interviews with potential candidates, would be far worse...