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...very much an insider, and for ten years before his election Eliot’s resident iterant in the faculty. James B. Conant ’13 was also an insider and performed the same role in the last decade of the Lowell presidency. Nathan M. Pusey ’28, although the last graduate of Harvard College to hold the presidency, was an outsider, and when his name was announced at his 25th reunion in 1953, the general reaction was “Pusey? Who’s he?” Bok was an insider, having been before...
...famously remarked on his deathbed, “If any man wishes to be humbled and mortified, let him become president of Harvard College.” And even Larry Summers has said on more than one occasion that Harvard was not ready for his kind of leadership. President Pusey was once asked, “Who runs Harvard?” to which he replied in essence, “Nobody: she allows us to try to keep up with...
When then-University President James B. Conant ’14 stepped down in 1953, the Harvard Corporation passed over Provost Paul Buck in favor of Nathan M. Pusey...
...points to the presidencies of former government professor A. Lawrence Lowell, Class of 1877, former organic chemistry professor James B. Conant ’13, and former Law School Dean Derek C. Bok as particularly “successful presidencies,” contrasting them to the Nathan M. Pusey and Neil L. Rudenstine administrations...
...Pusey, Class of 1928, left Harvard after earning his history doctorate and served as president of Lawrence College in Wisconsin. He was tapped to lead his alma mater in 1953, and his 18 years at the helm of Harvard were a turbulent time in the school’s history, punctuated by the 1969 strike that ended in a police raid on student-occupied University Hall...