BOSTON--The Harvard presidential search committee met yesterday during what some sources say could be the final weekend before a new University president is chosen.

During the meeting, held in the Boston Harbor Hotel's Presidential Suite, the committee did not meet with any of its top candidates--University of Michigan President Lee C. Bollinger, Harvard Provost Harvey V. Fineberg '67, Princeton Professor Amy Gutmann '71 or former Treasury Secretary Lawrence H. Summers.

University of Michigan Regents have stated that a final decision is expected as early as this week.

Yesterday, several search committee members, including Hanna H. Gray and Conrad K. Harper, ate a late afternoon lunch in the hotel's Intrigue cafe, while search committee staff took the members' luggage to their rooms.

After the rest of the group arrived, members waved at reporters before retreating for an afternoon of closed-door meetings in their 16th-floor suite overlooking the harbor.

Meeting participants declined comment.

Hotel security removed reporters before the meeting ended.

The committee met in New York with Bollinger for the third time last weekend at a small Manhattan hotel. Bollinger also declined comment last weekend.