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...Strike. Lipset writers, SDS had decided that in order to top its feats the year before at Columbia it would have to act at Harvard in a way "deliberately designed to provoke authority to be repressive." The forcible occupation of University Hall was the tactic decided upon, and the Pusey administration , Lipset suggests, responded just as the radicals would have wanted it to when Pusey called in outside force to evict the protesters. (The outrage of students and sympathetic faculty to the Bust was predictable, Lipset claims, because a similar reaction followed Josiah Quincy's decision to call in police...
...strike probably marked the apex of Harvard's crisis, but for me and my family it was just beginning. That summer, while the family was visiting relatives in Los Angeles, President Pusey flew there for an odd and dramatic meeting with my father. On a park bench, with a nearby jack-hammer eliminating the possibility of an eavesdropper, Pusey asked him to become Dean of the College...
...predecessor, Nathan Pusey, had a lot to say about the role of the university in modern America in a book called The Age of the Scholar, In his essay, "Leadership and the University." Pusey warned of "excessive preoccupation with the ordinary in life and...idolatrous service to economic activity." Probably his best point came at the essay's conclusion...
...sense Bok's plan is enlightening because it finally makes clear the way Harvard feels it serves society. It seems to confirm Pusey's fears about the fate of American universities which had always had "a peculiarly practical orientation," and "very little--perhaps too little--of the ivory tower." Harvard has hardly been an ivory tower these past few years. Its reliance on government funds (and more recently, with the Med School's Monsanto contract, on industrial funds) continues to increase. And its impact on government has been significant--Ford's administration is the first to have three former Harvard...
...Corporation opened a fund to endow a chair in the field ten years ago, but, aside from a short-lived attempt under former president Nathan M. Pusey '28 to establish a whole department in modern Greek studies, nothing came of the idea until Athan Anagnostopoulos lecturer in classics at Boston University approached Dean Rosovsky this fall...