Word: puseys
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Seventy-nine presidents of private universities and colleges-but not President Pusey-sent a letter to President Nixon Saturday urging him to adopt a "stepped-up timetable for withdrawal from Vietnam." Mary I. Bunting, president of Radcliffe was one of the signers...
...Pusey, when asked why he had not endorsed the letter, said, "It has been my policy not to sign things ever since I've been president of Harvard. But it doesn't imply that I'm for the war or anything like that...
...Pusey was one of three Ivy League presidents who did not sign the letter. Kingman Brewster Jr., president of Yale, had sent a stronger letter to Nixon last Thursday, asking for unconditional withdrawal of American troops from Vietnam. A spokesman for John Sloan Dickey, pres-ident of Dartmouth. said that Dickey thinks he can be "more effective if he doesn't take public stands in foreign affairs. Dickey, who was a State Department official before going to Dartmouth, has in the past expressed his opposition...
...Student Mobilization Committee (SMC) will ask President Pusey today to cancel classes and close the University on October...
...recess lost by a vote of 214-215. "There's at most 10 per cent accuracy in such a count." Ptashne said. "If anyone on their side had called for a recount we probably couldn't have voted on the war. But President Pusey called the question. The final effect was just what we wanted, a ringing declaration...