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...That sentiment is hardly new: in 1944, Dean of the Faculty Paul H. Buck solicited professors’ opinions on the Overseers’ visiting committees. As Morton and Phyllis Keller describe in their book “Making Harvard Modern: The Rise of America’s University,” Buck’s findings were far from promising: “complete indifference.... The function has sunk to so low a repute that few believe anything can be done with the device...
...when in 1954 Board members complained to Conant’s successor, Nathan M. Pusey ’28, that the Overseers had been marginalized in important governance decisions and appointments, Pusey responded that he would informally seek their advice in the future. But, as Morton and Phyllis Keller note in “Making Harvard Modern: The Rise of America’s University,” “little appeared to change...
...budget. Pusey considered his task as president to make Harvard “an academically stronger University by making it a more affluent one,” according to a 2001 book about the University’s history, “Making Harvard Modern,” by Morton and Phyllis Keller.BIG-BUDGET BEGINNINGSThe Class of 1956 witnessed only the very beginnings of Pusey’s ambitious fundraising drive—an effort that included the Program for Harvard College (PHC), which raised over $80 million, the equivalent of $575 million today.Though not formally announced until...
...Social Relations and Psychology. The rapid construction meant that the face of Harvard underwent striking changes during this expansion.“The assertive modernism of the new buildings at Harvard (and other universities) celebrated the booming present and the promising future, not the storied past,” Morton and Phyllis Keller wrote in their book, “Making Harvard Modern.” “Harvard became a showcase of the works of leading contemporary architects...The results were (and are) frequently criticized as ugly, dehumanized, at war with instead of building on Harvard?...
...pretty intense.”In fact, Whitman initially wanted to strike a path away from her father’s. “She said that she wanted to go into a field where her father was not particularly a specialist,” says Morton White, who taught Whitman in Humanities 5 and is an emeritus professor of philosophy and intellectual history at the Institute. “My reply was it’s going to be very hard to find a field like that.”Whitman says she knew she did not want...