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Nathan M. Pusey '28, the Harvard president who called in the cops, was caught by surprise by the breadth and intensity of the ensuing revolt. He did not calculate that the war, not to mention the drug culture it exacerbated, had shattered much of the rigid social segmentation of Harvard tradition...
...stop circus, with its even more bizarre array of characters and sideshows, continued until we graduated, accelerating in madness with the invasion of Cambodia and the killings at Kent State. By June 1971, we were exhausted by the sheer intensity of our rage, and so was Pusey, whose premature retirement began at our commencement...
...April 9, 1969, Harvard President Nathan M. Pusey '28 called in police to remove student demonstrators from University Hall, which they had taken over to protest University policies on issues ranging from real estate to the Reserve Officer Training Corps...
...could have imagined at the time that the decision would trigger a stream of events that would eventually lead to Pusey's resignation and create the need for a search for Harvard's 25th president...
Dean Epps' breathtaking essay entitled, "The Uses of Diversity," provides a most chilling historical account of past Harvard presidents' concerns about race relations at this school. Surprisingly, it pretty much says that everyone from Nathan Pusey, who served as president in the 19th century, to current president Neil L. Rudenstine has addressed race relations. Congrats, guys. Let's keep up the tradition for years to come. Address it, write an essay or two and pass the legacy on. Harvard is all about legacy anyway...