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STORIES (309 pp.)-Jean Stafford, John Cheever, Daniel Fuchs, William Maxwell-Farrar, Straus & Cudahy...
...Cheever, who takes over the position in July, is the first to admit that his prescribed duties are rather awesomely vague. The general idea, he says, is that since College alumni today are not at all the stereotyped old grads that they perhaps used to be, but instead are intelligent, prominent, and interested in the problems of education, it is to Harvard's advantage to draw them into as close a relationship as possible...
...Cheever is very pleased that many Faculty members, instead of sneering at his appointment as a public relations measure on the part of the Administration. have told him sincerely that they think such a liaison between the University and its alumni is needed...
...appointing Cheever and by otherwise demonstrating his sincere respect for alumni, as well as by his actions on such policy issues as the McCarthy attacks, Pusey has made himself very popular among University graduates. In the opinion of a current member of the Board of Overseers, he already has built up more confidence and support among the alumni than any previous Harvard President...
...future, as Cheever takes up his new duties, as Pusey's various other steps toward closer links with the alumni take effect, and as the old grads themselves continue to become more responsible in their attitude toward the University, one can look for an ever-closer relationship between Harvard and its graduates body on many levels...