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...Harvard professor is a poorer man today than he has been for generations,” Pusey wrote...
Also among the pressing needs Pusey cited in his report were the shortage of housing for married students, the lack of space for the growing Chemistry, Behavioral Sciences and Astronomy Departments and the need for more professorships and money for financial...
...have an exceptionally good College and we are 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
...Pusey announced his intention to create the Program for Harvard College (PHC), a capital campaign to raise $82.5 million—over $575 million today—by Commencement Day of 1959. The drive would be the largest in the history of American higher education, and would mark the first modern fundraising campaign undertaken by a university, according to historian of Harvard Morton Keller. Investment banker Alexander M. White ‘25, a partner in the New York based White, Weld & Company firm, was named general chairman of the program by Pusey in 1956. Working with him would...
...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...