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...spring of 1970 that Pusey announced his early retirement, a move he says was not prompted by student unrest, but rather by the impending departure of several members of the Harvard Corporation. He left hoping that the University's troubles were nearing an end, that soon "there was going to be some sanity...
...thought by 1970-71, my final year, that everything was quiet, and it was over, and Harvard could get back to business," Pusey says. "That was a utopian thought, because feelings were so strong that they were not going to return to normal in a hurry. The faculties were divided, with real personal animosities built...
...Pusey and his wife now live in a modestly furnished apartment on the Upper East Side of Manhattan, where he has been involved in the work of several charitable causes. Throughout his first years in New York, he says, he was often stopped on the street by Harvard alumni wanting to console him for what they saw as the disaster that had befallen his presidency. Once again, Pusey felt misunderstood...
...Pusey does not feel sorry for himself, he feels sorry for the way the world has changed in the years following the tumult of 1969--a year which marks in his memory the point when the nation and the University he loved succumbed to the pressures of a harsher, more violent...
...things that I'm saddest about is that up until that time, we didn't have all the doors locked, and all the chains on things you see now at Harvard," Pusey says. "It just makes me sick to see what Harvard has been like since 1969, and what it was like before. It was an open place...