The annual report of the Dean of the College--the only administrative history and evaluation of recent race relations at Harvard--drew praise yesterday from student leaders and administrators for its goals but was also condemned for several of its evaluations and recommendations.

The study does not present any major new proposals for handling race relations, and it reiterates the College's opposition to establishing a Third World Center.

The report focuses on several divisive minority issues Dean of the College John B. Fox Jr. '59.

*calls for an increase in the number of minority senior tutors and advisors, but no separate deans or counselors for minority students.

*states that the controversial Afro-American department has begun to "fulfill" and even "surpass" its original goals.

*argues against establishing a "Third World Center"--an institution labelled by supporters as a tangible marker of the College's concern for minority students.

*supports a 1984 Freshman Week calendar which would include both official and unofficial events of all student groups.

*makes long range recommendations focusing on recruiting more minority faculty and administrators.

Integration

The report emphasizes Harvard supports neither "separatism" nor "assimilation" of minority students, but instead calls for a middle ground of "integration. "The report defines integration as "an absence of barriers to full participation in the college," and "an absence of distinctions imposed by the College between faces or other groups."

Assimilation and separatism tend to obstruct the realization of pluralistic ideals the report states adding that students must be free to choose their social and intellectual affiliations without constraint.

Distinction

Harvard has taken a different position from other institutions that emphasize ethnic affiliations. "Fox said yesterday, adding that the report is intended to stress Harvard's distinction from that attitude.

Fox selected minority issues as the topic of his annual report because of "a lot of misunderstanding over where we've been going in the past decade," he said adding that a major misconception is that Harvard favors assimilation of its minority students.

Criticism