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...strike took a personal tool as well--Ford suffered a stroke in late April, and was temporarily replaced; Glimp left Harvard that September and did not return until this year; and Pusey left Harvard in 1971, a year before he would normally have been required to retire. With Pusey's retirement and his replacement by Derek C. Bok, former dean of the Law School, the University began to build a new governing structure--a more bureaucratized system, one of dispersed power, with less emphasis on the "one-man show" that Pusey had run for more than a decade...
Ironically, the same meeting of students that approved the demands had three times rejected--by narrow votes--proposals that students occupy University Hall to support the demands. Instead, about 300 demonstrators marched onto the grounds of the house of then President Nathan M. Pusey '28 on Quincy St., the building that now headquarters the Harvard Corporation. Led by Jessie L. Gill--a tenant's organizer and SDS militant who had been active in tacking the community-oriented demands on to the list of anti-ROTC proposals--the group marched up to the house. Gill then pushed aside a guard...
...number of students inside the building fluctuated throughout the day and night. About 200 were involved in the initial takeover; that number reportedly swelled to more than 350 by the late evening, as the demonstrators left the doors open. Pusey and Ford met throughout the day with the Council of Deans and the masters of the Houses. At 10 p.m. they reached the decision to call in the police, according to their later accounts...
...first, Pusey asked Robert L. Tonis, then chief of University police, to clear the building. Tonis said later he had "serious misgivings" about the action, but felt he had no choice. Later however, it became clear that outside police help would be needed; and so helmeted, gas-masked officers from Arlington, Cambridge, Boston, Somerville, Watertown, Newton and the Metropolitan District Commission were asked to make the charge, while University police kept the way clear. About 275 demonstrators were arrested, and about 75 injured. As the full-time cops were mopping up inside. Tonis circulated outside the building, apologizing to onlookers...
...Pusey and Ford justified the police action on the grounds that they had to protect the University and what it stood for. "It was quite clear that the issue was a direct assault upon the authority of the University and upon rational processes and accepted procedures," Pusey said in a statement released April 11. "What is now at stake is the freedom to teach, to inquire and to learn," Ford added in a statement released the same day. "Some now insist that 'storm troopers entered University Hall.' This is true, but they entered it at noon on Wednesday, not dawn...