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...Christian ceremonies. As Nelson remembers, Crimson editors didn't realize the provocative nature of Buttrick's views, which were buried in the article. Soon afterwards, the Crimson published a letter objecting to Buttrick's views, and then one supporting the chaplain. The second letter came from then-President Nathan Pusey '28, who wrote. "Harvard's historic tradition has been a Christian tradition...
...didn't understand what kind of deep emotions we had touched." Nelson now says, The president's letter ushered in "a very stormy period." Auchincloss recalls "fierce denunciation of the chaplain." Students protested, and 16 professors--including Arthur M Schlesinger '38 and John Kenneth Galbraith--expressed their objections to Pusey in a hand-delivered letter. Ultimately, Harvard's corporation reversed the church's policy...
...knew we had earned those diplomas, many of them with honors--a great accomplishment but typical of our time. I don't remember whether President Pusey or President Jordan handed them out on that broiling hot day in the Radcliffe...
...Nixon Administration and left on short notice in 1973. Franklin Ford left office in 1969 at a time of turbulence, and before him, McGeorge Bundy "went to Washington very suddenly," Rosovsky notes. As far back as the '50's, Pearl Buck resigned somewhat precipitously when Nathan M. Pusey '28 became President of Harvard...
Three years ago, there was some grafitti in a stall on the third level of Pusey Library that said "They won't find this grafitti." A few months after I saw it, some ambitious B&G worker had whitewashed those words and the wall of comments that had surrounded them. And someone wrote "They won't find it again...