Most students incorrectly view the management of the modern corporation to be solely concerned with profits, he said. "Undoubtedly, there has to be a conflict between the pursuit of profit and employee welfare. It is the job of the manager to manage this conflict in a way which is not totally detrimental to either side."

"The manager must do well, while he is doing good," he said, adding that that is essentially what a House master must do.

Andrews, who received his B.A. and M.A. from Wesleyan and his Ph.D. from the University of Illinois, took a circuitous route to his career in business. His graduate and undergraduate degrees were in English and American literature.

His first book, Nook Farm: Mark Twain's Hartford Circle, seems very out of place when it is included in a listing of all his writing, such as The Effectiveness of University Management Development Programs.

"I set out to be an English professor after I received a Ph.D in 1937, but I got involved in administration when I was in the Army during World War II," he said.

"After the war, I was invited to join the Harvard Business School faculty under an experimental program. I thought the very idea of my being appointed to the Business School faculty was funny, but I took the post primarily because it gave me access to the Mark Twain papers in Widener."

He said the false view many Harvard students have of American corporations is primarily the result of an educational system which "deprives them of the opportunity of learning many of the practical arts and skills which they will be employing for the rest of their lives."

"By no means am I advocating that Harvard become a vocational school. But, I do think students ought to be given some opportunity to study what they are going to be doing for the rest of their lives while they are here," he said.

Andrews said Leverett House courses, including the one he teaches on "Management in the Modern Corporation," are designed to provide students with this opportunity.

Andrews said he had some trouble getting senior members of the faculty to visit with students in Leverett House. Professors are usually "just as shy about coming into a dining hall full of people they don't know as students are."

To alleviate their timidity, Andrews said, he tries to invite professors for a specific purpose, such as a discussion of their latest book.

He said choosing tutors is the "single most important thing" that a master does. "I not only choose tutors for departmental reasons alone, but for the extracurricular activities which they can bring to the House.

The Andrews, who have two grown children, said not having any children living at home is an advantage. "The mastership is a lot of work. We might have had to neglect our own children if we had been masters when they were growing up," Carolyn Andrews said.

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