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...when in 1954 Board members complained to Conant’s successor, Nathan M. Pusey ’28, that the Overseers had been marginalized in important governance decisions and appointments, Pusey responded that he would informally seek their advice in the future. But, as Morton and Phyllis Keller note in “Making Harvard Modern: The Rise of America’s University,” “little appeared to change...
...such thing as school spirit per se. Attendance at the rare football rallies is often so poor that everybody walks home without even attempting to cheer. The so called “All-College Weekend” has been abandoned as a miserable flop. Yet when President Pusey replied to Senator McCarthy’s charges that there was hardly a single undergraduate who was not proud of his university and its president. This kind of pride, demonstrated by the faculty in their commendations for the president and the administration, is a clue to the real spirit that is Harvard...
...depart from their notepad pinnacle for more academic file cards. Our only conclusion at such close range can be that it has been a good year for historians and for sorcerers, and that it has been a year of expansion. Although history is said to repeat herself anyway, President Pusey and the overseers seemed determined that she not forget Harvard this year. An ancient historian by trade, the president has pointed to the College’s past, shown that it has grown by fifty men annually during the last century, and has concluded that it could do so again...
...communist” in its orientation; indeed, there were many influential officials who suggested that Harvard was a haven for communist influences that intended the destruction of American values. The fervor became so prevalent that the post office promptly delivered to the office of then-University President Nathan M. Pusey ’28 any letter addressed to “Kremlin on the Charles.” Undergraduates faced the prospect of having to demonstrate their “Americanism” in order to qualify for entry into many professions. There were loyalty tests for new teachers, background...
...space crunch that afflicted the University also forced the Admissions Office to cut the Class of 1960, admitted in the spring of 1956, by 200 students. The easing of the University-wide overcrowding problem became a theme of the University administration that year, led by President Nathan M. Pusey ’28. In a number of public speeches, Pusey stressed the need to expand the University’s infrastructure to accommodate the current number of enrolled students and also outlined a vision for a larger campus that would enable the College to admit even more applicants.Pusey laid...