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...When Pusey suceeded Conant as Harvard President in 1953, he did not know he would be the last President to live in Loeb House, in what is now the headquarters of the Harvard Corporation...
...president of Lawrence College, Pusey was an unlikely candidate for the Harvard presidency. He earned three Harvard degrees--a B.A. in English in 1928, and a Masters in 1932 and a 1937 Ph.D., both in classics--but his entire career had been spent outside of Harvard...
...Harvard, Pusey's heart was in the College, which he wanted to use to instill the value of scholarship in young students. Liberal education meant broad reading in all of the humanities--which, in Pusey's ideal view, included a healthy dose of religion...
...Pusey was praised during his tenure for his core beliefs about education, his fundraising, his defense of the University against McCarthyism, his strong support of an ailing Divinity School and his early calls for a merger between Harvard and Radcliffe...
...reputation as being in good financial shape when I was appointed," Pusey says. "But I saw that the University that was presumed to be the richest in the world was in desperate need of money...