One Law professor said after Thursday night's meeting, "Yes, I think it's unfortunate that more Faculty members didn't come, but I certainly don't think they stayed away in bad faith. As far as professors finding out what the students said tonight, what do you think we'll be talking about at lunch tomorrow."

Another view frequently aired was that Pusey and Bok should look outside the Law School for the next dean. "We need a fresh perspective," Doug Castle, a second-year student, said. "And we don't want a carbon copy from the outside either. Someone with fresh ideas is not going to sink the Harvard Law School, but he may give it a few bumps and that could be all it needs."

The prospect of the new dean coming from the outside is minimal, however. "I would say the chances of the new dean coming from outside the present Faculty are very slim if not non-existent," one Law professor said this week. "This seems to be the accepted view among the Faculty."

If one thing was certain at Thursday night's meeting, it was that there is a huge gulf of opinion at the Law School not only about curriculum but about the selection of the new dean as well. Tying together the views of which constitute this gulf is the task which now faces the Governance Committee.

Considering the rapidly approaching deadline, the task is not an enviable one.