Serious consideration of Heard would surprise many Faculty members here because he is not well-known in Eastern circles, despite the fact that he took his M. A. and Ph. D. from Columbia. Heard

Carl Kaysen, 50, director of the Institute for Advanced Studies in Princeton:

If anyone is wondering what's happened to MacGeorge Bundy in this selection process, he is safely ensconced in New York talking about what a great idea it would be to have Carl Kaysen as Harvard's 25th president.

Kaysen became a professor of Economics at Harvard in 1955 while Bundy was Dean of the Faculty and followed him to Washington in 1961 as deputy special assistant for national security affairs until 1963. He's been an active consultant on state department strategy since 1947, while building an academic reputation first as a Junior Fellow here from 1947-50 and through the fifties and sixties as a professor.

Few of his Harvard colleagues were surprised when Kaysen moved from Littauer Professor of Economics in 1966 to head the research-oriented Institute for Advanced Studies.

Kaysen has been one of the most outspoken advocates of pure scholarship-the more rigorous the better. His latest book concludes that universities like Harvard are financially doomed if they continue to train undergraduates. Instead, he suggests the universities immediately be turned into graduate schools.

In a Daedelus-sponsored discussion of student participation on Faculty tenure committees, he said, "The great work of the university is intellectual. No one who has not made that commitment-and very few graduate students have made it-is entitled to participate at this level of decision-making.... I predict that if students come on [faculty committees], the faculty will go off."

Kaysen, however, is a scholar with a quick logical mind and acerbic tongue. He is more comfortable and convulsive with his intellectual peers, but shows an intense dedication to his own graduate students.

How this kind of intellectualism can be brought back to a Harvard significantly changed from the one Kaysen left in 1966 brings out all of the bitter polarizations in the faculty. As would be the case with Bundy, many of the young liberals and students think choosing Kaysen would be a deliberate reach back for the good old days with Mac. Conservatives appear delighted at the idea.

Donald Kennedy, 39, chairman of the Stanford Biology Department:

The number of West Coast professors has been pared down considerably, but even on the larger list, Kennedy's name is clearly one of the most academically reputable.

Harvard's newest member of the Board of Overseers, elected last Spring, is both a distinguished neuro-biology researcher and prominent Stanford professor active in several faculty committees.

He reportedly turned down the presidency of Stanford, but with an A. B. (52), A. M. ('54), and Ph. D. ('56) from Harvard, he would be far more likely to take an offer from Harvard, according to colleagues.

Within the Stanford faculty, he is a staunch defender of academic freedom an equally staunch opponent of campus violence, according to one editor of the Stanford Daily. The Daily has had its own run-in this fall with Kennedy after he led a faculty campaign to censure them for a radical article they ran under the by-line of a member of the Bay Area Revolutionary Union.