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...some students, thesis research does not mean months spent in the dusty stacks of Widener or in Pusey's antiquated archives. Rather, research constitutes spending the summer after one's junior year to live with African peasants, study contemporary British print unions, or reside in Indian refugee villages in Mexico. Behind all of these travels, lies what some have called the best-kept secret at Harvard, the Center for International Affairs (CFIA) grants for summer research...
During Harvard's student protest of 1969, then President Nathan M. Pusey '28 came under fire from the University's Board of Overseers. Board members, increasingly dissatisfied with Harvard's heavy-handed response to the activism, called for major changes in University policy. The overseers, seen by many as a group of stodgy alumni, attempted to convert themselves into an efficacious governing body that could heal a divisive Harvard community...
Several hundred students invaded University Hall on April 9, 1969 and evicted administrators. When President Nathan M. Pusey '28 called in the state police to forcibly remove and arrest the protesters, students responded by boycotting classes for a week. Although the University dropped the charges against most of the students, 132 students were ultimately disciplined for participating in the occupation...
...Husband-wife team which won honoraries in the same year: Former Harvard president Nathan Marsh Pusey '27 and his wife, Anne...
Fears that the automatic stacks might crush someone have been assuaged by almost two years of uneventful service in Pusey. Although those shelves have destroyed several stools which were left in a closing aisle, no one has been hurt. The Tozzer stacks are equipped with sensitive pressure plates which cut power to the stacks when someone is standing in the aisle...