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Kirkland: Kyle C. Frisina, Nathan A. Labenz, Liam R. Martin, Lauren A.E. Schuker...
...still contend that her gender had nothing to do with her rejection.“It is absolutely the truth that the department was leaning over backwards and really gave her considerable advantage because she’s a woman,” emeritus Andelot professor of sociology Nathan Keyfitz said then.Alessandro Pizzorno, former Sociology Department member and a supporter of Skocpol’s tenure, expresses a similar view. Pizzorno writes in an e-mail from Florence where he is a researcher at the European University Institute, “one could say that unexpressed consideration [of gender] influenced...
...anti-communist” in its orientation; indeed, there were many influential officials who suggested that Harvard was a haven for communist influences that intended the destruction of American values. The fervor became so prevalent that the post office promptly delivered to the office of then-University President Nathan M. Pusey ’28 any letter addressed to “Kremlin on the Charles.” Undergraduates faced the prospect of having to demonstrate their “Americanism” in order to qualify for entry into many professions. There were loyalty tests for new teachers...
...Class of 1956 wrapped up its first year at the College, they were joined by a fellow newcomer to Harvard. Almost five months after the sudden resignation of James B. Conant ’13 that January, Nathan M. Pusey ’28 was selected as the 24th president of the University. When Pusey arrived in Cambridge, the University had been accumulating what he would later describe as a “backlog” of financial needs for two decades. But by the time the Class of 1956 approached its graduation, Pusey was on his way to building...
...space crunch that afflicted the University also forced the Admissions Office to cut the Class of 1960, admitted in the spring of 1956, by 200 students. The easing of the University-wide overcrowding problem became a theme of the University administration that year, led by President Nathan M. Pusey ’28. In a number of public speeches, Pusey stressed the need to expand the University’s infrastructure to accommodate the current number of enrolled students and also outlined a vision for a larger campus that would enable the College to admit even more applicants.Pusey laid...