High-Pressure President

When President Conant first speaks to the man who is to be his successor at Harvard, he may very well repeat the words he wrote in his last report on the University; "...to inform the potential applicants in far away communities about Harvard College is one of the urgent tasks that lie ahead."

Whitney Darrow's president will be ready. He will press a button in his suit, blink his eyes once or twice, turn to his smiling predecessor and say, "Noli timere, o vir Harvardiensis, ad astra per aspera!"

A graduate of Princeton, Whitney Darrow, Jr, has been contributing cartoons to the New Yorker for almost 20 years. His drawings have been collected in two books, "You're Sitting on My Eyelashes" and "Please Pass the Hostess." This is the eighth of the series on Harvard's next president.