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...then-President Nathan M. Pusey who in the mid-1950s first broke with tradition when he introduced the "Program for Harvard College...
Amid rapid postwar growth, Harvard was in danger of bursting at the seams. In response, Pusey initiated a "bold plan for improvement of all phases of undergraduate education," according to Harvard: An Architectural History, compiled by Margaret Henderson Floyd...
...Pusey managed to raise $82.5 million over two years, far outstripping all Harvard fundraising efforts to that date. Some of the building funds went into renovating the Yard dorms, Boylston, Emerson, Harvard and Lehman Halls...
...1970s, not to be outdone, made a few other notable additions. Currier House was finished by Radcliffe in 1970, the same year Harvard finished Mather House. The Science Center followed soon after in 1973, Canaday Hall in 1974 and Pusey Library...
...While Pusey was not directly responsible for all new buildings built at the University during this time, Harvard's frugal, space-saving outlook would dominate most other considerations during this period of intense development that ended around 1977, when the Kennedy School of Government was built...