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Harvard claims a long tradition of defending dissenters. When Physics Professor Wendell Furry and Research Assistant Leon Kamin took the Fifth Amendment before Joseph McCarthy's Senate investigating committee in 1953-54, McCarthy demanded that they be fired, but Harvard's new president, Nathan Pusey, refused. "There is now an especially urgent obligation upon our universities to preserve freedom of inquiry and freedom of teaching," he said. Massachusetts Governor Christian Herter urged Pusey to fire anyone who took the Fifth Amendment, but Pusey stood firm. A decade later, however, he sacked Timothy Leary, then a lecturer in psychology...
...presidency, Pusey says, "The period of my administration, I do think, was a constructive period in Harvard history. We made many advances in that period of time...
...best job in the world. It still is," Pusey says. "Except for the last two years, it was nothing but joy. The last two, I must say, were quite unhappy years, and that was because of all the disturbances...
Rating the administration of his successor, Derek C. Bok, Pusey says, "He's done a remarkable job in the development of the Kennedy School and the whole University, relating it more to public issues...
Looking ahead to the 400th anniversary of Harvard in 2036, Pusey, a Greek scholar, says that the center of the world will have shifted to the Pacific, away from the Atlantic. After having worked for six years with higher education in East Asia, especially with the People's Republic of China, Pusey says, "I feel myself that we have worshipped this Western tradition too long. The Chinese civilization is so much more ancient than ours, and here we look down on them...