Word: puseys
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...rules Harvard? According to the university charter, final authority is vested in the 32-man board of overseers, or trustees; in practice, most major policy decisions are handled by the Harvard Corporation, a seven-member council that includes President Nathan Pusey, Treasurer George Bennett and five alumni (who choose their own successors). But the six-day student strike, an event for which the administration was ill prepared, subtly changed the balance of power at Harvard. Each element in the academic community in turn asserted its right to speak for the university and to prescribe cures for the institution...
Athenian Democracy. The Harvard Corporation offered its prescription on Sunday, three days after the police "bust." Five moderate students were invited to present their views to the corporation at the Quincy Street residence of President Pusey. Then the corporation created a new, 68-member advisory board of students, professors and administrators to consult with the president in times of crisis. The corporation reiterated its support of last February's faculty decision to strip ROTC of academic credit and ordered a fresh report on the university expansion program, which is accused by many students of dispossessing poor blacks from their...
...Hall, shouting under the drizzle, "Hey, hey, we're all on strike. Four times. Strike, strike, strike, strike!" Some walking barefoot, they called up to students in the dormitories to join them. Filtering through the stalled traffic of Harvard Square, the marchers wound up in front of President Pusey's house on Quincy Street. There they observed a shouted exhortation to "have a moment of meditation for the outgoing president and fellows...
Realistic Codes. The statement was drafted by a small group of university heads and foundation officials, including Nathan Pusey of Harvard and Father Theodore Hesburgh of Notre Dame. It conceded that there were legitimate causes for student alienation, but deplored the "cult of irrationality and incivility" that has developed, warned that students who violate the law "must be prepared to accept the due processes and the penalties...
Following Pusey will be George P. Baker '25, dean of the Business School, Archibald Cox '62, Samuel Williston Professor of Law, who will speak about campus disorders in general, and Harvey Brooks, dean of the School of Engineering and Applied Physics, who will talk on the University's relation to Federal contracts...