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...recommendation was part of a report sent to President Pusey and Dean Watson last month. The report suggested that Harvard follow the example of Yale's Pierson College, which recently named noted author John Hersey as its master...
Yale University broke with tradition last spring and appointed a man who is not a faculty member--John Hersey, the novelist--to be Master of Pierson College. From all accounts, the experiment has proved successful. Hersey has managed, in his own words, to "smuggle" some of the "goods of the artist" into the "kingdom of the teacher." As the HUC reported earlier this week, he has brought creativity and innovation to Yale's Colleges (the equivalent of Harvard's Houses), while avoiding the potential disadvantages of being a layman...
...unanimously approved the policy report at a meeting Monday night. Author John Hersey's appointment last spring as Master of Pierson College at Yale was the focal point of the report. Daniel C. Goldfarb Jr. '66, president of the HUC, and Steve W. Simpson '66, chairman of the Dunster House Committee, discussed the appointment with Yale students, administrators, faculty members, and Hersey himself...
Proponents of the plan say there has been no decrease in student-faculty contact at Pierson College. Assistants of Kingman Brewster, President of Yale, did not feel the Hersey appointment will affect faculty acceptance of masterships in the future...
...side effect of his appointment was a certain small boost in sales. "I've read several of his books already," said Lance Fletcher, Pierson librarian. "I went out today and ordered the rest for the library...