Word: pusey
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...University Hall takeover, Pusey maintains, was orchestrated by "not more than five or six people who had adopted this Marxist-Leninist business...
...Pusey, the protesters' specific demands had little relevance; it was "scholarship and reason" themselves that were at stake, as he would later write. Through most of his presidency, Pusey had proudly watched as Harvard helped guide post-war America into a "golden age." But in recent years, many at Harvard had harshly attacked Pusey's most cherished goals and accomplishments. Some had even called for revolution...
Although he says he never lost his love for the Harvard community, Pusey had grown increasingly disturbed by what he saw as the gullibility of leftist students and faculty...
...course, lots of these people wanted to get hurt," Pusey says. "They were trying to act like they were being brutalized, but Dean Ebert [of the Medical School] was there, and he could tell you there was no brutality of any kind. I think there was one girl that jumped out the window and may have broken an arm or something like that, but I don't think anybody else ever went to the infirmary. The reports of violence were just not true. There was no violence at all. The police just pushed you, they just trucked them right down...
...idea was to get it done without anybody being hurt," Pusey says. "And that was why [the police] sent in these specially trained people, because they were aware that our concern was that people should not be hurt. Get them out of there, but don't hurt them. And that was done, despite the things that were said. They did a good job. I was proud of the way they got them out. They were not hurting anybody. And they did it so darn quickly...