Wilson Still a Possibility for Chicago Position; Brown, Barnard Also Seek New Presidents

Several Harvard professors and administrators are included in a "narrowed-down field" of candidates for the office of Brown University president, Vernon Alden, chairman of the Brown presidential search committee, said yesterday.

Alden said the search committee has reduced its list of potential nominees from more than 500 to approximately 35 individuals.

"In this group there are some people who are now at Harvard," Alden said, but Alden would not identify them.

The committee will begin to interview the 35 candidates this month. By the end of the month the committee hopes to reduce the number of candidates to five or ten, and "by the turn of the year" the committee hopes to announce its final selection, Alden said.