Word: puseys
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...Harvard that Pusey first saw was the Old Harvard. He lived on the River his freshman year, in a boarding house his sophomore and junior years, and in the Yard his senior year. He and his friends spent the evenings playing bridge...
When the naive 18-year-old freshman first stepped foot into Harvard Yard in fall, 1924 nobody suspected that the lowa native, Nathan M. Pusey '28, would someday become president of the University...
...fact, Pusey was much more impressed with Harvard than Harvard was with him. "I had never been East," he recalls. "It was a kind of picturesque New England world I was just enchanted by. It contrasted so much with the bleakness and the plainness of where I grew...
...Harvard that the 80-year-old man remembers best was nothing like the golden University that Pusey knew in the 1920s, but the turbulent school of the 1960s. Students were protesting the Vietnam War and rebelling against the establishment, including Harvard...
...spring of 1969 things came to a head when Pusey called in the state police to forcibly remove students who had taken over University Hall in protest of the Vietnam War--an action which many say resulted in his early resignation...