PERSIAN WISDOM

To the Editors of the Crimson:

There is an old Persian saying that is is better to administer than to be administered.

Harvard has changed from a community of scholars and students to a big business corporation, perhaps an inevitable development in our time, but nonetheless sad. Having taught on three continents I believe that Harvard is behind the timetable. The future will bring a great increase in the bureaucracy at the expense of the faculty and the graduate students. The undergraduates are safe, as is the bureaucracy, but graduate students and teh faculty may have to move into the bureaucracy in order to survive. Then the politicizapion of the university today will seem as nothing compared to the future. Richard N. Frye   Professor of Iranion