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More than 1000 people gathered outside Pusey library on April 23, the date of the closed Corporation meeting that would decide Harvard's stock policy for the year. Some protesters, dismayed by the Corporation's failure to announce its decision immediately, surrounded President Bok as he tried to make his way across the Yard at the end of the day, and watched as the University police whisked him away in a patrol car; others took up an around-the-clock vigil outside University Hall and vowed to stay there until a final decision came down...
...more Harvard affiliated personnel to live in Cambridge, which might improve faculty-student relations. "If everybody lives in Cambridge, then faculty can have students over to their houses, and we will be able to build a tighter community." Wyatt's words echo the thoughts of former president Nathan M. Pusey '28, who wrote in the late '50s, as Harvard was beginning its expansionist era and purchasing a great deal of property in Cambridge and Boston, that he believed that Harvard's future was closely tied to the concept of creating small communities within the larger community, ensuring Harvard's existence...
Scant attention is paid to the deeper issues beneath the student riots, which were responsible for the sympathy they evoked in less radical students. In one of the more personal comments Pusey allows himself to make in the book, he alludes to his feeling of betrayal, not only by the student body but by the Harvard Faculty as well, who criticized him for his isolation from campus opinion and his response to the SDS occupation of University Hall...
Here, as in the latter portion of the book dealing with educational aims, the removed narrative voice and the aura of opacity pervading the book disguises a justification of policies that academic administrators--hence Pusey himself--adopted during this period...
...statistics, which deals with, but never quite confronts, important issues still pertinent to American education. In an era marked by shrinking budgets, a declining student population and a swelling number of highly educated people for whom no jobs exist, institutions of higher learning have entered a new crisis period. Pusey's easy optimism consequently strikes a jarring note. His report provides information on past achievements but fails to supply any insight into how the more pressing problems facing American colleges and universities today might be resolved...