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...high posts, but he had lost considerable authority within the University in the past six years. In addition to serving as associate director of the Bureau of Study Counsel as Senior Tutor of Dudley in the 1950s, Whitlock acted as special assistant for governmental relations to President Nathan M. Pusey '28 from...
...voice their discontent over Harvard's housing policies. Anderson recalls that he turned off the microphones as soon as he realized what was happening, but it took an off-state negotiating session to continue on schedule Anderson adds that on that "unpleasant and uncivilized day." President Nathan M. Pusey '28 was forced to abridge one portion of the Commencement, granting all of the University's degrees with, a single presentation, rather than by school...
WHEN HARVARD PRESIDENT Nathan M. Pusey '28 called in the police to evict demonstrators occupying University Hall on April 10, 1969, then-dean of the Law School Derek C. Bok called the occasion "the saddest day of my life." The students' decisions to seize the offices of Harvard's deans as a means of protesting the war in Vietnam had met general disapproval from moderates, but the nightmare of brutality inflicted by police in the core of the Yard forced a painful reappraisal of the University's relations with its students and its role in society...
...from Wisconsin a decade earlier, and failed to reassess their roles in society when faced with a frontal assault on academic freedom, shows that the "multiversity" had to be shaken from below to lessen its rigidity. The university-as-fortress had bred a state-of-siege mentality; thus Nathan Pusey called in the police...
...says Hartman, was a standoff "Evidence of lots of violations was uncovered, but my claim could not be definitely proven. The insurmountable barrier was that every key figure in the decision who could have provided evidence to support my contentions--ex and current department chairmen and deans, even President Pusey refused to cooperate fully with the investigating committee the faculty itself...