Word: puseys
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...same, Mike Kazin, a top student, is also an angry young man who, among other things, affixed a list of demands to Harvard President Nathan Pusey's front door. Such hard-line methods have increasingly disturbed even the most admiring parents. Says Edmund W. Pugh Jr., a Weyerhaeuser Co. executive whose son was suspended from Stanford after a sit-in: "We have a great feeling of compassion toward David as his idealism clashes with organized society. But I don't approve of their tactics. There is a proper way to express dissent: through the spoken and written word...
...time for rigidity now, Nathan Pusey...
...Nathan Pusey will leave his post in 1973, when he reaches the retirement age of 66 which Harvard imposed on administrative officers. Since the President and Fellows have "perpetual succession" under the University's 1650 charter, the Corporation will choose his replacement, subject only to consent of the Overseers. Within the next year or so the Corporation will form a search committee to begin looking for a new president, and the men on this committee will talk to "an infinite variety of sources," according to Sargent Kennedy, secretary of the Corporation...
...less concerned that the new president share this community's sentiments or even that he be willing to listen to them. This selection policy seems to have been followed in the past, but Harvard's internal rumblings will be even more severe in the next twenty years if, after Pusey's retirement, it is faced with the outcome of a similar process conducted by the men now serving on the Corporation...
...most disturbing developments of the last few weeks has been President Pusey's appointment of a special committee to investigate "possible misconduct" by Faculty members during the April crisis. In a calmer emotional climate than the one Harvard now faces, it might be possible for the Faculty to consider objectively some standards of acceptable and unacceptable conduct. But the particular context in which this new committee has started to work makes its purpose seems repugnant...