Word: nathan
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Pressed to name a replacement for Harvard Dean McGeorge Bundy, President Nathan Pusey promised to make the appointment "sometime this side of the indefinite future." The time came last week...
...Conant's successor, Nathan M. Pusey, Harvard has acquired a president concerned more with undergraduate education than with the speaking tours of the Conant regime. Pusey came to Harvard from Lawrence College, a small, liberal arts institution in Appleton, Wis., where he had taught undergraduates for over half of his nine-year as president...
...Dodd's ideal president would be no more than a sterile operator, a caretaker. This indicates that the university president of the 1960's is not the man of ideas, not the adventurer, not the innovator (although Dodds mentions this part of the job parenthetically). Indeed, the accomplishments of Nathan Pusey's tenure, by no means unimpressive, are not startling new departures, but courageous and competent responses: the amazing repair of the Divinity School, the staunch defense of academic freedom when threatened by McCarthyism and the NDEA; holding the Ivy League together during trying times; launching and completing a gigantic...
...Twersky studied at the University under a leading scholar of Judaism. Harry A. Wolfson, who is now Nathan Littauer Professor of Hebrew Literature and Philosophy, Emeritus...
...think he's been a most effective president," mused White House Aide McGeorge Bundy-referring, for the moment, not to John F. Kennedy but to Harvard's Nathan Marsh Pusey. For to Bundy, the former dean of Harvard's faculty of arts and sciences, even the turmoil in Laos last week could not wholly eclipse the fuss in Cambridge-a fuss sparked by Bundy's own departure from Harvard 16 months ago, and the consequent pressure of work laid on President Pusey...