Word: puseys
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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President Nathan M. Pusey, in his 18th and final Annual Report, told the Board of Overseers, "The advances made [during 1969-70] were little short of remarkable in both number and quality in view of the almost continuous disruption or threat of disruption...
...Pusey-who is retiring from the University next summer to become President of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation-begins his 21-page report with a two-page catalogue of last year's various political demonstrations and actions, "an almost unbroken series of efforts by various dissident groups to create campus disturbances...
...catalogue-which begins and ends with attacks on the Center for International Affairs (CFIA)-Pusey said, "It is a disgraceful story insofar as it is owed to members of a generation professing superior insight, heightened sensitivity, and lively human concern; but there it is for the record...
...Despite these events, however, and "despite ominous clouds cast by financial stringency"-1969-70 was the first year of the Pusey administration when the University did not operate safely in the black-"this is a propitious point for a new President to take over," Pusey said...
...heartening is the fact that the marches on Shannon Hall were turned back, not by the few University police on hand at the time, but rather by other aroused students-a very large number of them freshmen-who were resolved to prevent such senseless activity discreditable to all young," Pusey said...