James Lynn, director of the federal office of management and budget, and assistant to President Ford, attending the 25th reunion of the Law School Class of '51, said yesterday that he is "baffled" about Jimmy Carter's ideas for the reorganization of the federal government and added that he'd "like to ask him some hard questions about it."

Lynn, who was also in Boston to speak at a Republican fund-raiser and to talk about the administration's programs with newspaper editors in Boston, said that "the voters face a decision between the president--an honest man with very specific programs--and Carter, a pig in a poke."

He explained that "a pig in a poke" is a 16th century expression meaning an unknown quantity.

The members of the Class of '51, including a number of governmental officials and corporate executives, have an average income of $97,200, according to the Class of '51 official report. The 79.5 per cent who are presently full-time lawyers have a median income of $80,000, and almost one-third of the class has incomes of over $100,000.

It's Worth It

A questionnaire sent to the members of the class before the reunion asked "If you could choose again, would you still become a lawyer?" Ninety-two per cent of those responding said yes.

"Harvard Law School taught them the importance of a misplaced comma and that knowledge is very important to their clients," Francis D. Fisher, director of the office of career services and off-campus learning, said yesterday to explain the group's high earnings.

Pointing to the well-dressed and noisy group of men and women gathered at the reception last night, Dwight W. Fawcett, a member of the class, said, "The people here are the ones who made the grade. You won't see the people who didn't have a ball at the Law School back tonight."

He added that in his years there he had "one helluva time."

Ford's budge director was talking only politics, though. He said he is "disap- Economics 10, "Principles of Economics," said yesterday that preliminary figures for enrollment in self-paced sections show that roughly the same proportion of students as last year--one-sixth--has chosen self-paced sections.

Ec 10 unit tests are given on the same basis as the tests in Physics 1 and Math 1 are given this year.

One special self-paced Math 1 section is offered this term to students with some background in calculus. The course, taught by Bamberg, will cover in one semester the material normally covered in both Math 1a and 1b.

Li said self-pacing is more likely to work in such a section, in which the students are motivated to learn a large amount of material