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...Hustling their elders out the doors, the students occupied the building for 41 hours before state police summoned by then-president Nathan M. Pusey ’28 arrived en masse to remove them...
...Nathan M. Pusey is selected to be the 24th president of Harvard University. He begins his tenure just as Senator Joseph McCarthy, in the last throes of his crusade to find Communist sympathizers, directs his attention again at Harvard Yard. This time, McCarthy orders the investigations of Instructor Leon J. Kamin ’48 and Associate Professor of Physics Wendell H. Furry on their past Communist associations and were required to give testimony in Boston’s Federal Building. The Crimson later publishes a series of six editorials criticizing Furry and Kamin for their refusal to speak about...
According to a report delivered by University President Nathan M. Pusey ’28 to the Board of Overseers on Oct. 8, 1956, approximately 1,200 additional students were living in Harvard undergraduate housing above the number the dorms were built to accommodate. Upperclassmen without space in their houses were being forced to retreat to the freshmen-only yard, taking up residence in Wigglesworth Hall. The College was in desperate need of more space...
...letter dated Feb. 4, 1957 to William Bentinck-Smith ’37, Pusey’s assistant, Lamont even remarked that “It could be said that the groundwork for the Program was laid in the spring of 1953 when the Corporation brought the name of Nathan M. Pusey to the Overseers as the 24th President of Harvard College.” A MULTIFACETED CAMPAIGN...
...1950s, faced with a rapidly growing demand for higher education, University President Nathan M. Pusey ’28 decided to increase the number of undergraduate Houses from seven to 10. This would make up part of the a broader expansion that would include 33 new buildings over the next decade...