Hall was equally emphatic in expressing that the aims of his administrative changes were not directed at controlling editorial content. "We have two absolute guidelines," he said last week. "First, every exemplary scholarly work will be published, regardless of cost. Secondly, we have no interest in making a profit as long as there are good scholarly works the Syndics feel should be published."

"Financially, we are now in much more control of what our commitments are; we are more in control of where we are going with our operations."

OPERATIONS MANAGER MURPHY expressed similar sentiments. "From the first," he said, "our aim has not been to make profits. It is not our intention that every book will make money. However, we hope that the successful books will absorb the losses of the less successful ones. We hope our tracking system will allow us to insure this more efficiently."

The administrative changes are aimed at the coordination of the scholarly and the economically sound. If early returns are any indication, it seems that the new management policies set the Press on the right track.

After the dismissal of Carroll, David H. Horne became acting director, a post he held until March 27 when he resigned to become director of the University Press of New England. Since then the Press's Directorship has been held by Oscar Handlin, Warren Professor of American History. At present a five-man search committee is looking for a successor to replace Carroll as permanent director. The committee, chaired by James Q. Wilson, professor of Government, includes Donald L. Fanger, professor of Slavic and Comparative Literature; Archibald Cox, Williston Professor of Law; Bertrand Fox, Shiff Professor of Investment Banking; and Simon M. Bessie, Chairman of the Visiting Committee. Wilson and Fanger are members of the Board of Syndics for the Harvard Press.

The search committee is still in its early stages, and has made a point of consulting with the Board of Syndics as a unit. It has solicited recommendations from the world of commercial publishing, from the world of university publishing, and from faculty members. According to Wilson, the committee is "just beginning to work through the recommendations."

Fox said last week that the committee is still gathering names as possible recommendations for the position. "We are just doing some preliminary sifting of the candidates," Fox said.

Wilson said that the committee is meeting bi-weekly and that it would narrow down the field in a couple weeks. "We hope to get it done by the end of the summer," he said. "We don't have a definite target date, but let's say that if we didn't have a firm recommendation to put on the President's desk by the end of the summer, he would be somewhat less than pleased."

While the Administration has steered clear of the search committee's quest for a new director, both Bok and Hall have distinct opinions on what type of man is needed to head the Harvard Press.

"Our aim," Bok said last week, "is to find somebody whose main interest is to maintain the scholarly and intellectual goals of the Press."

Hall differed slightly, "I want a guy," Hall said, "who is intelligent and innovative enough to make the Harvard University Press into a great press.