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...individuals most frequently suggested as successors to President Pusey, who is retiring next June, are John W. Gardner, former Secretary of Health. Education and Welfare, and S. I. Hayakawa, the acting president of San Francisco State College who is noted for his strong reactions against student radicalism...
According to a story in the Boston Globe Monday, Hayakawa's popularity among alumni has disappointed several Harvard officials who are involved in the selection process...
University officials say that Gardner and Hayakawa are just two of the 600 names being considered...
...battle over the flag tends to erase distinctions. Says S.I. Hayakawa, president of San Francisco State College: "You can be a rightist or a leftist and be a patriotic American. When a symbol becomes a fetish, then you make the semantic error of confusing the symbol with what it is supposed to symbolize." The flag in theory symbolizes national unity, but such a unity in the U.S. has always been somewhat illusory except when war or depression joined together the nation's disparate cultures to overcome an overriding threat. In any case, national unity can never be legislated or policed...
Nominees range, in the words of Francis Burr, "from S.I. Hayakawa and Spiro Agnew on the right to Norman Mailer and Jerry Rubin on the left." For what job? Burr, senior fellow of the Harvard Corporation, is leading the search for a successor to Harvard President Nathan Pusey, who is stepping down next June. This gives Burr a year to find one. He has made a semipublic appeal for nominations, and there is even a telephone answering service on campus that records the favorite choice of any interested party...