Next, Chandler adds, search committees worry whether the candidate's political affiliation might concern alums with fat wallets.
Columbia University presidential scholar Alan Brinkley says even if Gore is a more logical pick than Clinton, he is still a long shot.
"He's a Harvard alum with no scandals in his past (or at least no big ones)," Brinkley writes in an e-mail message. "But I would be surprised if Harvard chose a partisan figure to be its president....I suspect Harvard will not want someone whose presence would alienate some potential donors."
On A Lighter Note
"He wouldn't be my ideal of what a school like Harvard should be looking for. ...It's just in the air because of the inevitable question, 'What does he do?' "
"Bill Clinton should run for Senate from Hawaii. He'd get reelected over and over. He'd be running around with a cigar and a lei around his neck and a Hawaiian shirt," Greenberg said. "It just seems like such a wonderful image."
"In some sense, the idea of Gore going to Harvard as president is a slightly more serious version of the same kind of fancy," he added.
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