Jonathan Moore, director of the Institute of Politics (IOP), yesterday declined comment on a recent report in the Dartmouth College student newspaper that he is one of three men being considered to replace Dartmouth president John G. Kemeny when Kemeny steps down in August.

John W. Hennessey Jr., professor of management at Dartmouth's Amos Tucks Business School and, according to The Dartmouth, another candidate for Kemeny's post, said yesterday that he "can neither confirm nor deny" the accuracy of the Dartmouth report.

A press conference is scheduled at Dartmouth tomorrow to announce the results of last week's trustees' meeting, but a member of the special search committee formed to recommend a new president to the 16 trustees yesterday declined to say whether an appointment would be announced.

"The search committee and the trustees have established a strict confidentiality around the whole process," Hennessey said.

The Dartmouth trustees formed the search committee last spring, when Kemeny announced he would retire this year. The committee has reviewed 361 applications, and the trustees have indicated that they will make a final choice before their April meeting.

Moore, a former associate attorney general at the Department of Justice, also served as a deputy assistant secretary of state and a special assistant to the Secretary of Defense before assuming his post at the IOP in 1974.