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Harvard’s last two curricular reviews, in the 1940s and 1970s, each pioneered tenets of undergraduate education that came to dominate Harvard and the rest of the nation. The 1945 review under then-University President James B. Conant ’14 essentially invented the idea of general education; its report, the “Redbook,” sold 40,000 copies in a few years. Former Dean of the Faculty Henry A. Rosovsky’s 1979 review invented the Core and a system of “approaches to knowledge” that became popular...
...eyes of Pusey’s predecessor, James B. Conant ’14, pleading the Fifth was tantamount to an admission of guilt, and many universities had dismissed faculty members who remained silent under questioning...
...Conant really didn’t think that somebody who took the Fifth Amendment deserved to be kept on, and said so,” says Brandeis historian Morton Keller, co-author of the book Making Harvard Modern. “Pusey, who had clashed with McCarthy in Wisconsin, knew pretty much who he was, and I think by the standards of the time was stronger on academic freedom than Conant...
...speech drew praise from the official Catholic newspaper in Boston, which had not looked favorably on the secular Conant and was glad to see the new Harvard leader calling for a “revival of spiritual interests...
...group of Divinity School students agreed, writing in an Oct. 7 statement to The Crimson that Pusey’s focus on the theological school was “a welcome change after the inattention received during the Conant regime...