Both at Berkeley where he was a professor of Economics and History from 1958-65 and on the Harvard Faculty which he joined in '65, his greatest distinction has come as an academic. Although he did not graduate from the College, he received his M. A. degree and Ph. D. from Harvard and was a Junior Fellow here from 1954-57.

In many ways, Rosovsky's last years in academia seem like a constant flight to the academic higher ground. He left Berkeley for Harvard in '65 because, he said, the continual student unrest interfered with his academic work.

Once here, he became chairman of the Faculty Committee to set up an Afro-American Studies Program. In the midst of the April '69 student strike, the Rosovsky Committee's report was first altered then rejected by the Faculty in the face of black student protests. Rosovsky resigned from the committee and took a year's leave of absence.

He does not have a great deal of fund-raising experience, but has been chairman of the Berkeley Center for Japanese and Korean studies and is currently associate director of the East Asian Research Center. He remains active on Faculty committees and is considered one of the leaders of the old conservative caucus.

Theodore R. Sizer, 38, dean of the Harvard School of Education:

The Ed School is one of the most easily overlooked yet most innovative graduate schools in the University. It is also a financial disaster area, or in the Harvard idiom, a bottomless tub.

Its dean for the last six years has been in the uncomfortable position of watching it grow from a mediocre to a respected and progressive school; then, at the height of its expansion last year, seeing the federal support shrink away.

This year the Ed School is operating under a total Faculty hiring freeze; its six million dollar library (still under construction) has absorbed most of the money from large private donors; and federal support for next year, the basis of several new programs under Lyndon Johnson's Great Society, is again being reduced.

Sizer took over the Ed School dean-ship in 1964 from President Pusey who served as acting dean for one year.

At the time he was still a non-tenured assistant professor serving as an advisor to Pusey. His elevation from assistant professor to dean surprised most older Faculty members, but there is little doubt the president hand-picked Sizer on the basis of personal confidence.

Whatever skepticism there was over Sizer's youth has apparently disappeared. A poll of Ed School students during the April '69 strike showed the dean was the most accessible Faculty member around-both to students and other professors. Under his direction, the Ed School continues to have the highest black admissions (15 per cent) in the University.

One drawback on his presidency chances, however, has been his emphasis on the development of the school at the expense of the more perfunctory duties of juggling budgets and smoothing out the administrative wrinkles. "You wouldn't characterize him as an efficiency expert," one colleague said. "He fits the mold of the dean as a teacher rather than the dean as a manager, or a fund-raiser, or administrative wizard. He's basically an educational philosopher and a humanist."

Robert M. Solow, 46, M. I. T. professor of Economics:

Like Cooper, Solow was one of the late additions to the list of candidates, But even more than Cooper, Solow is an administrative enigma.

Although he is regarded as one of the leading economists in the country, Solow has almost no administrative background. As one colleague put it, "I think he is a rather remarkable choice."