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...Moving on in their 'analysis'," said President Pusey of the rebels, "they see our universities as having been taken over by the business and military establishments...[and as] devoted to 'the present and future domination of the people of the world.' Obviously, they live in a world of fantasy." He got the political part of the radicals' critique right, on the whole, though by 1975, with Walt Rostow trapped on celluloid repeating his war apologies before audiences watching "Hearts and Minds" while hundreds waited for helicopters on the roof of our embassy in Saigon, one could be forgiven for wondering...
Posterity may in fact regard coach Joe Restic as a greater fund raiser than President Pusey. But these are idle and self-indulgent speculations, the concern of those whose spirits rise and fall with the size of Harvard's coffers. There are those for whom the game is a sacred ritual, and others for whom the game is a meaningless display of wealth and violence. What one likes and dislikes about the Harvard-Yale game on the occasion of its 100th anniversary is probably a close approximation of how one feels about this university...
...walk through the barren halls of Nathan M. Pusey Library, you'll see a little yellow square of paper stuck to the wall of each room. The writing on the yellow square in study-room #36, "Install lights. Touch-up metal trim. Install thermostat. General clean-up," is representative of the minor work involved in completing construction of the library...
Books are piled on the floor at over-crowded Widener and Houghton libraries, Walsh, said. He stated that the addition of Pusey would not only alleviate this condition, but would supply the University system's space needs for the next 15-20 years...
Howard Gillette '35, assistant to the vice president for alumni affairs and development, said yesterday that the program, instituted last year, is designed to recapture the interest of those alumni who were active in the alumni association during the Pusey Administration, but have since lost touch with Harvard...