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Last week the Corporation said that it will not make its announcement during the Christmas holidays. Yesterday, Francis H. Burr '35, Senior Fellow of the Corporation, said there was a "99.9 per cent chance" there will be no decision this month...
...Overseers delegated the responsibility for reviewing potential candidates to their executive committee last spring, and approval for the Corporation choice is considered a formality. Still it will take time, Burr said, to give the chosen one a chance to decide if he wants the job and to convene the two Overseers groups, composed almost exclusively of businessmen and public officials...
...stage of formal consultation with student and faculty committees has ended, Burr added. There will be no more meetings with the Faculty Council, Committee on Governance, or other administrative groups, but individual faculty members will still be asked for comments "right up to the final minute," Burr said...
...Burr noted the meteoric rise of some of the people on the list of 23 finalists in the last few weeks. "We're putting some people into college presidencies just by listing them on our list of candidates," he said wryly. "I think we can now add them to our alumni contributions list...
Shiras got the idea of providing student inputs on the decision process last August. She approached Burr, who was enthusiastic about the idea of such a group. Her first target in attempting to raise money for the enterprise was John D. Hanify '71, president of the late Harvard Undergraduate Council. Later she approached the Independent...