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...were a little confused down the stretch with some new guys in the lineup, but overall the level of play was pretty good.” With the match under control, Ridolfi rotated into the game several of his less experienced players in the third frame. Freshman Jeff Nathan and sophomore Jamie Crooks—who is playing his first season of volleyball after rowing men’s crew last year—saw extended action and played well as the Crimson closed out the match, 30-24. “Every guys works hard in practice...
...ripples extended all the way to the college applicant pool. This time, though, experts and applicants alike believe that history won’t repeat itself.In 1969, amid nationwide anti-war protests, students forcefully occupied the hall. That incident was one factor leading to the resignation of then-President Nathan M. Pusey ’28 two years later.From 1969 to 1970, applications to Harvard College dropped by 6 percent, and again dropped 12 percent the following year.Last month, University Hall was once more the site of an anti-administration revolt—with more than a dozen professors confronting...
...year was 1971. Dean of Harvard Law School Derek C. Bok had just succeeded the embattled Nathan M. Pusey ’28 as president of Harvard University. John Updike ’54 topped the bestseller list, a war dragged on in Vietnam, and conservative President Richard M. Nixon governed from the Oval Office. On July 1, 2006, newly appointed interim President Bok will again take the reins of the University. Although more than 35 years have passed, the current state of affairs seems to be much the same. Another conservative president sits in the White House, another...
...when he became president in 1971. If you think Harvard is in “crisis” now, it was nothing compared to the mess Bok inherited: a university divided, bitter and exhausted by battles over the Vietnam war, including the infamous decision by his predecessor, Nathan M. Pusey ’28, to call the cops into the Yard when students occupied University Hall. By the time my class arrived on campus in 1975, Bok’s calm and deliberate style had already soothed the waters. Although he may not have done it fast enough...
...University president.Which is not surprising, considering that Harvard is looking for a person to fill possibly the most prestigious and stressful position in the academic world.Harvard has had four presidents over the past 50 years, and each has made a significant contribution to the University. But from Nathan Pusey’s hardline approach to student protestors during the Vietnam War to Lawrence H. Summers’ ill-advised comments about women in science, it seems talk of their faux pas outlives memory of their contributions. While more recent presidents have exited gracefully, several of the past century left under...