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...Harvard students have fallen victim to "spring fever," tending to engaging in activism as the slush disappears and the weather warms. In the spring of 1952, students rioted to demonstrate their support for Pogo--a popular cartoon character--for President. In 1961, thousands of undergraduates marched on President Pusey's house to protest the College's decision to write diplomas in English...
NINE YEARS AGO Nathan M. Pusey came to Harvard from Lawrence College in Appleton, Wisconsin, to become President of an enormous institution built on layer after layer of sedimented traditions. A slow and delicate play of subterranean forces had brought it to its current stature, a vast and complex machinery that it would be foolish to meddle with too deeply. The University might change, but it would have to change more through a process of natural evolution than through administrative decisions initiating and guiding change...
...nine years later, and more than a year since Dean Bundy left for Washington, Mr. Pusey's view of Harvard remains essentially conservative. But the last few months have placed him in situations where he has needed to make a number of decisions concerning the University's future...
Wrong decisions can be reversed: the lasting consequences of Mr. Pusey's errors is a growing feeling among the Faculty that the President does not understand his University. Scholars do not like to work where they are not understood. The Faculty's suspicion that Mr. Pusey's Harvard is not their Harvard is dangerous; it is also disasterously close to true...
...Crimson was by 1962 extremely critical of President Nathan M. Pusey's leadership and administration, complaining of the growing distance between the President and his community...