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When the University’s 1957-8 Committee on the Practice of the Visual Arts recommended to President Nathan Pusey that Harvard launch a formal program in the arts, then-Dean of the Graduate School of Design, Josép Lluis Sert (also reincarnated as puppet) recommended Le Corbusier for the job. The building, built to house the nascent VES department, was to become a laboratory for creativity and a catalyst for the understanding of art at Harvard. The Carpenter Center as synthèse des arts was a utopian challenge for Corbusier, whose recent and no less idealistic...
...Happening was compiled by Vinita M. Alexander, Jessica A. Berger, M.A. Brazelton, Theodore B. Bressman, Mary Catherine Brouder, Ben B. Chung, Julie S. Greenberg, May Habib, Nathan J. Heller, Steven N. Jacobs, Bryant Jones, Amelia E. Lester, Timothy J. McGinn, Kristina M. Moore, Tony A. Onah, Will B. Payne, Geneva Robertson-Dworet, David B. Rochelson, J. Hale Russell, Zachary M. Seward, Julia E. Twarog and Julie Y. Zhou...
...really believe that the reason the Ivy League presidents don’t change the policy is because of the enormous amount of respect they have for their predecessors, and with good reason. President Lawrence Summers has been preceded by luminaries such as Charles Eliot, A. Lawrence Lowell and Nathan Pusey, and I agree with his respect for these extraordinary...
...activists suggest that Harvard should divest its $590,000 of Mississippi Light and Power Company bonds and its $12 million in Middle South Utilities Company stock, as both companies have segregated facilities and discriminatory hiring and promotion practices. The University rebuffs the suggestion, leading to student condemnation of President Nathan M. Pusey ’28. Students also protest the University’s holdings in General Motors and several utilities companies accused of polluting...
Idealism won’t get you far in convincing Harvard to divest. The University already has an internal watchdog to ensure that Harvard invests in responsible companies and presidents since Nathan Pusey have balked at the idea of politicizing the endowment. But for persistent idealists, try these steps...