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...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...
...Harvard’s influence came, in my view, from the fact that we actually succeeded in getting considerable support from faculty for our proposals. That gave heart to reformers on other campuses to try again,” Keller writes...
...wasn’t so much the particulars of the Core as the reaffirmation of general education requirements that was the main source of whatever outside influence the Core had,” Keller adds...
...Curricular reform in higher education tends to come in waves, the timing of which is related to advances in knowledge, changing intellectual, social and moral interests and values,” Keller writes in an e-mail...
...Keller says she believes that the factors that lead schools to reform are no more prevalent today than they were at the time of Harvard’s last major curricular review...