Education: Hayakawa for Harvard?

In scouring the nation for Harvard's 25th president—the still unfound successor to retiring Nathan M. Pusey—the university's governing corporation recently canvassed 200,000 Harvard alumni, students, faculty and employees. The answers revealed just how deep the divisions are among Harvard men about the recent uproars in Cambridge. The respondents' first choice was a symbol of Harvard's traditional moderate liberalism: John Gardner, former secretary of HEW and present head of the National Urban Coalition.

But the second largest batch of replies expressed dissatisfaction with the liberal stance. They proposed the man who epitomizes a hard-line approach to student dissenters: San Francisco State College...

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