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...Harvard’s expansion were to match national projections, the College would need to accept 8,000 to 10,000 undergraduates and build up to 12 more Houses. However, Pusey, among others, believed that moderate, but not total expansion was the appropriate and necessary path for Harvard to follow. But would the existing Houses be able to accommodate the influx of students...
Nathan M. Pusey ’28 took the reins of the University in the fall...
Hailing from the same Wisconsin town as McCarthy, Pusey was no stranger to his tactics. While president of Lawrence College in Wisconsin, Pusey publicly tangled with the senator during his bid for reelection. McCarthy, in turn, derided Harvard’s new president as “a rabid anti-anti-communist...
...classics scholar, Pusey brought to the job a distinctly different style from his predecessor, James B. Conant ’14, a scientist who had worked on the Manhattan Project with the goal of strengthening national security...
...Conant really didn’t think that somebody who took the Fifth Amendment deserved to be kept on, and said so,” Morton Keller, co-author of “Making Harvard Modern,” told The Crimson in 2004. “Pusey, who had clashed with McCarthy in Wisconsin...was stronger on academic freedom than Conant...