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...April 1969, approximately 400 students took over University Hall, ejecting several deans and administrators. They held the building for more than 24 hours, until 200 police, using billy clubs, tear gas, mace and physical force drove them from the hall at the insistance of then President Nathan M. Pusey. The students had agreed to peacefully resist any police action taken, but several were beaten unconscious...
...Faculty's decision still required Corporation approval and the Corporation's only response to the Faculty vote was a letter from the Corporation stating that it agreed with the Faculty but intended to negotiate new contracts with the Pentagon to keep ROTC on campus. In response, students picketed President Pusey's Quincy St. house and adopted a wait-and-see attitude. Col. R.H. Pell, a professor of Military Science at the College, announced that by law ROTC courses had to be given college credit--and thus ROTC couldn't remain, given the faculty's decision. But the Corporation continued negotiating...
Eventually Pusey clarified the Corporation's intentions on ROTC, saying Harvard would "do everything possible to keep ROTC" "What is clear is that the faculty had a clear choice to oust ROTC from campus and it was voted down with a resounding thud," Pusey said. "I think its important that ROTC be kept here. I personally feel it's terribly important for the United States of America that college people go into the military...
Pipes recalls that he agreed with Pusey, but acknowledges that campus sentiment overwhelmingly opposed the President. The fact that the Faculty motion contradicted the law seemed inconceivable to Pipes at the time. "The notion that colleges and universities are a law upto themselves is pernicious and extremely non-democratic," he says...
...evangelism, the show could have been carried off only by Harvard. Imagine a college clogging the airwaves for an hour to ask for $82.5 million. "Harvard College needs your support, your interest, and your continuing concern. And it needs liberal investments of your money," said then-President Nathan M. Pusey '28. The plea was camouflaged among affirmations of the need to support colleges in general: "Not just the quality of American education but the strength of the American people is going to be second-rate," warned Alexander M. White, chairman of the fundraising drive, which was dubbed "A Program...