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...story of the present-day UC is much older than that—beginning with the burst of activism surrounding the University’s perceived support of the United States military during the Vietnam War, most notably the presence of ROTC on campus. It was amidst the confusion and enmity so characteristic of the era that the student government—a body known as the Harvard Undergraduate Council (HUC)—crumbled, leaving the fate of student legislature largely to a committee led by historian Merle Fainsod, the then-director of the Harvard Library...
...This has only increased the time pressure on Faust, as the process of selecting a dean requires a long courtship, University leaders past and present...
Unfortunately, a housing shortage was not the only problem the College had to confront. Pusey also stressed the need for increased salaries for professors, an area in which the College was losing its previously “unchallenged lead to which no small part of Harvard’s present greatness may be attributed.” In a report to the Class of 1930 given by the Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences McGeorge Bundy in 1955, he wrote that professorial salaries have not been able to keep up with the rises in cost of living. According...
...proud of it,” Pusey wrote. “But we know the College, as the heart of the University, cannot hope to continue to provide a strong active intellectual life for its students and to contribute to human welfare in future generations if the present generation of Harvard men does not promptly and determinedly provide the necessary resources to go forward.” BIRTH OF A PROGRAM
...TIME: With views like that, how were you able to present both sides...