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It’s been a while, Krokodiles. The Krokodiloes, Harvard’s oldest a capella group, lured 220 ex-Kroks to their 60th reunion concert last Friday. The gala featured concerts, banquets, celebrations, and even a tearful marriage proposal. Plummer Professor of Christian Morals and Pusey Minister in the Memorial Church Peter J. Gomes kicked off the show, introducing the Kroks as “the most unsubtle of music groups.” As if to prove his words, alumni singing groups—with names like “The Primordial Oohs?...
...they revolted against raising academic standards by smashing tutors’ windows. In the “Great Rebellion of 1834,” students raised a black flag of rebellion and burned University President Josiah Quincy, Class of 1790, in effigy. And in 1969, University President Nathan M. Pusey ’28 famously called in Boston and Cambridge police to forcibly remove students that had taken over University Hall to protest ROTC recruitment on campus...
...Peter J. Gomes is a Harvard celebrity, and for those who see Harvard as a haven for secularists, he is the first of many exceptions to the rule.Growing up, “[church] was like basketball was for some kids,” Gomes says, looking the part of Pusey Minister in his book-lined, wood-paneled office in Memorial Church. As a young man, he was a kind of know-it-all, he says, with a memory for Biblical passages, sermons, and wisecracks.As a student at Bates, though, he did not envision himself as a minister. In fact...
...college applicant pool. This time, though, experts and applicants alike believe that history won’t repeat itself.In 1969, amid nationwide anti-war protests, students forcefully occupied the hall. That incident was one factor leading to the resignation of then-President Nathan M. Pusey ’28 two years later.From 1969 to 1970, applications to Harvard College dropped by 6 percent, and again dropped 12 percent the following year.Last month, University Hall was once more the site of an anti-administration revolt—with more than a dozen professors confronting President Lawrence H. Summers at a full...
...created the concept of the concentration. Lowell, in turn, came under fire for his racism and anti-Semitism. A search committee installed James B. Conant ’14 in 1933, who helped create the SATs and developed a more meritocratic university, according to Menand. After Conant, Nathan M. Pusey ’28 presided for 18 years, and his tenure saw a marked return to conservatism.But just because Pusey tried to be a straight shooter doesn’t mean he could avoid controversy. After calling the police on University Hall protestors in 1969, Pusey fell out of favor...