For others, Calkins and his cooperation were not enough. When the anti-ROTC campaign began early this fall, several leaflets accused the Corporation of "appointing 'lawyer' Calkins in a sham attempt to make the board look more 'liberal.'"

III

IN HIS recent appearance at Harvard, Calkins has often given the impression of being Representative Mid-western Man. He constantly punctuates his speeches with references to conditions back home in Cleveland. Some of his television talks here have left audiences wondering if Calkins is able to think about Harvard events without translating them into Cleveland-school-board analogies.

Calkins exudes the same Midwestern air in his frequent testimony before Congress. When he talks to Congressional committees investigating new educational bills, Calkins likes to speak with the voice of grass-roots America as he tells of his experiences in Cleveland.

It is a little surprising to find out that Clevelander Calkins is a thoroughbred product of the Eastern educational establishment. He was born in Newton in 1924, and he went to Exeter before coming to Harvard.

As an undergraduate here, he served briefly as president of the CRIMSON in 1942 (a year when the paper had three presidents). He graduated magna cum laude in the now-defunct field of mechanical engineering, and went off to join the Air Force.

After ending his Air Force career in 1946, Calkins returned to Cam- bridge to go to the Law School. He was president of the Law Review, and graduated with enough honors in 1949 to win a job as clerk to Learned Hand, then the chief judge in New York's Circuit Court of Appeals.

A year later, Calkins stepped up to the Supreme Court and clerked for Justice Felix Frankfurter.

Then, in 1951, Calkins moved to Cleveland. Some of his political associates there, with a note of civic deprecation, say they still do not understand why Calkins left Boston, Harvard, and the East for industrial, unattractive Cleveland. As a bright young man who had just been a clerk for a Supreme Court Justice, Calkins could easily have stepped on the escalator to success in law or government.

His explanation of why he decided to move sheds interesting light on Calkins' present and future plans. When he was still in Law School, Calkins says, he began to look around the country to see where he would like to make his career. The years of clerking in New York and Washington were only temporary--he wanted to make a long-term choice of where he would make his home.

While he was trying to decide, Calkins talked with James Grafton Rogers of the State Department. Rogers told Calkins to get away from New York and Washington. They were not the best places for upwardly mobile young lawyers, Rogers said. Instead, Rogers offered Calkins some advice modeled on his own experience. The real secret, Rogers said, was to move out to some Midwestern state, become a local celebrity, and eventually return in glory to Washington.

Rogers had followed just such a policy. He had left the East and gone to Minnesota, where he "set up his lightning rod" as expert on foreign policy. When the State Department decided that it needed a man from the Midwest Rogers was the logical choice.

If you want to influence the nation's policy, Rogers told Calkins, move away from the centers of power. Go to a place where there's a relative vacuum, and make a name for yourself.

Calkins got the message. He has solidly established himself as a leading public figure in Cleveland, and he says his Midwestern expertise adds impact to his Congressional testimony.

The next logical step is the Rogers-like return to Washington. Calkins does not talk in detail about any political plans he may have. Some of his Cleveland cronies do. They suggest that he may run for Congress soon, or perhaps try for the mayoralty. Both reports could be simple rumors; but it seems clear that Calkins' steady rise in Cleveland politics will lead to bigger things.