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11. Welconin5^ and entertaining visitors. 



12. Maintaining extramural relations v;ith 

 government agencies and committees, 

 foundations, learned societies, and 

 population activities in other universities, 

 and intramural relations with other com- 

 ponents of Harvard University. 



13". ^.ervinfT on university and SPH committees. 



1^. GivinfT speeches and carrying out other 

 public relations functions. 



15. Preparing reports to donors anc? ,^rantinr 

 agencies. 



16. Helping to raise endovmient and operatinr funds. 



17. Keeping the staff happy, accenting the positive 

 and m.inimizinr: the negative. 



18. Proposing evolution and application of policy. 



The directorship is a fine platform, for an eloquent person 

 who has something fundamentally important to say and is 

 dedicated to saying it . In my case I believed deeply and 

 tried to communicate that the problem.s of poverty and popu- 

 lation are inextricably interrelated and that these problems 

 can be solved only by extraordinary efforts or. t^^ p^rt of 

 all r.en of good v;ill. The argument shoul:? be buttressed 

 with clearly reasoned principles and presentation of many 

 kinds of data. 



Second, the principal task of the Director is to bring together 

 scholars of diverse disciplines in a concerted attack on the 

 cop.plex issues which underlie the population problem in the 

 poor countries. He must find, encourage, an<i provide intel- 

 lectual stimulation to natural and social scientists (and 

 humanists) concerned X'rith resources, with future food supplies, 

 ;-;ith the ways of overcoming deeply imbedded tradition and 

 injustices as well as with demographic, economic and political 

 analyses — in short, scholars representing m.any of the fields 

 of study in the university. 



