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...Morals Peter J. Gomes spoke at the 10 p.m. service, which was supported by the Undergraduate Council (UC) and organized by the Memorial Church faculty. “No one wants to feel like they are alone in tragedies like these,” Gomes, who is also the Pusey minister in Memorial Church, said in an interview before the event. “It’s a natural thing for people to want to come together, so I want to speak to the nature of community and how one deals with fear in the middle of that community...
...enthusiastic about the ascension of Drew G. Faust to the presidency of Harvard, but for me, the most important feature of President-elect Faust is that she has spent her entire adult life as an active scholar. She is not a long-time administrator like Nathan M. Pusey ’28 was. Her scholarship was not mixed with public service or a Brahmin legal career. She is a dyed-in-the-wool, true blue, one-hundred-percent academic, who has spent her life creating knowledge and disseminating it through writing and teaching...
When Nathan M. Pusey ’28 ascended to the Harvard presidency in 1953, Joseph McCarthy was beginning his second term as the junior senator from Wisconsin. Pusey was a respected academic from Lawrence College; McCarthy, an opportunistic demagogue spreading jingoism across postwar America. The two men had little to do with each other, and had Pusey been elected the head of a less influential institution, McCarthy may never have heard his name. But Pusey, as president of Harvard, quickly realized he had tremendous influence over the nation’s academic discourse. He chose to challenge creeping McCarthyism...
...position of provost was created under former University President Nathan M. Pusey ’28. When Pusey assumed the presidency in 1953, Provost Paul Buck, who was serving concurrently as dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, stepped down, and the position went vacant for almost forty years. Former University President Neil L. Rudenstine reinstated the post when he took over in 1991. [SEE CORRECTION BELOW...
CORRECTION Due to an editing error, the Feb. 22 news article "Hyman Will Remain Provost" incorrectly stated that the position of provost was created under former Harvard President Nathan M. Pusey '28. In fact, it was President James B. Conant '14 who appointed Harvard's first provost, Paul Buck...