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...Mellon Foundation is chaired by Former Harvard President Nathan M. Pusey '28. President Bok said yesterday that Pusey had spoken in favor of the grant to the Divinity School because he "recognizes from experience the particular difficulties in raising funds for the Divinity School...
...university as a center for critical intellect he is explicitly concerned with the effects of social and political disputes on this ideal. So he discusses President Lowell's bigotry; he covers restrictions on pro-Communist faculty and students during the McCarthy period; and he tries to determine why President Pusey failed to "appreciate the strength of the half of a millennium old norm that police should not be called to the precincts of a university...
...President Kirk's resignation." On the eve of the Harvard occupation, SDS itself defeated a motion calling for immediate seizure of a building each of the three times it was proposed. But the next day, the Maoist Worker. Student Alliance caucus of SDS moved in. It was only President Pusey's order for outside police to evacuate the building that "radicalized" other students, and made a strike possible. Surveys show that 82 per cent of Harvard students opposed the sit-in but 78 per cent rejected the calling of police, and that the use of outside force not the protesters...
Sawyer said he foresees a continuation "in the same line" as Pusey's policies, with greater emphasis added to environmental affairs...
Sawyer said Pusey "has done a very good and useful job as president." He noted an emphasis on higher education and the humanities in Pusey's direction of grants, citing several grants to university presses, young post-doctoral students and regional theaters...