Word: puseys
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...including myself, spent hours of their time putting up flyers announcing the event, as is customary for any organization to do. Within one day, I observed that more than half of these flyers had been ripped down, even from such places as the Freshman Union Bulletin board and the Pusey Library fence. The number of flyers intact continued to decrease from day to day. The incident finally inciting me to protest this harrassment was the complete defacement of the section of the fence we had painted--by two offensive mockeries of the event: "Necrophiliac Thursday" & "Child Molester Friday...
...celebrate Halloween, Bok dresses up as Kingman Brewster and announces that there is no money to continue building the Pusey Library. "The only point of it was to name something after Nate," Bok says. "Now, instead of the Nathan M. Pusey Library, it'll just be the Nathan M. Pusey Hole In The Ground." In another effort to save money, Bok cancels all classes...
...mighty young, and hasn't yet really won his spurs. I keep getting the feeling that [President emeritus Nathan M.] Pusey was viewed as a stern Puritan who could raise money and handle things. The fact that he failed in crucial times at the latter was the beginning of a malaise which was transferred to his successor...
Members of the association deplored what they called harassment by members of the Harvard community. One member called the removal of posters from approved bulletin boards a "flagrant abuse of civil freedom." He also cited the defacement of a "Gay Wednesday" sign on the Pusey Library fence with the words "Necrophiliac Thursday" and "Child Molester Friday...
...dark-red massiveness of Sever Hall stakes out a solid claim on the land beneath, in contrast to the make-shift wooden pillars and ersatz Old-North-Church steeple of Mem Church next door and the Pusey library burrowing underground. The steps of Horace Trumbauer's Widener dominate the quandrangle, but Sever holds its space without demanding reverence. Widener, it is assumed, will last forever--it appeals to the scholar's upward gaze beyond forever, while Sever controls its ground right...