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...When the University failed to respond to student calls to kick the Reserve Officers Training Corp (ROTC) off-campus and half its expansion into the community, among others, more than 200 demonstrators took over University Hall, forcibly evicting administrators who refused in leave. Harvard President Nathan M. Pusey '28 subsequently used Cambridge police to exict the students, a move which further polarized the community. In protest, student activists died to strike classes. Less than one-fourth of the student body attended classes until a week later when 5000 students voted to suspend the strike...
...McCarthy trained his guns on Harvard with a vengeance second only to those he reserved for "the establishment" stretching along the Potomac River. In 1953, McCarthy would bring his hearing committee proceedings to Boston to challenge Harvard professors, and later in the year he accused then-President Nathan M. Pusey '28 of producing a "Red-Mess" in Cambridge...
Calkins has a history of being the most visible member of the publicity-shy governing body. During the turmoil of 1969, Calkins acted as de facto spokesman for the administration, often replacing the isolated and hostile President Nathan M. Pusey '28 on local TV talk shows and in public meetings...
...Calkins's experiences at Harvard and in Cleveland seem to parallel each other; voters lopsidedly removed him from the school board after one term, Harvard replaced Pusey with President Bok, and the Corporation gained new faces who seemed to reflect a new latent desire, both at Harvard and around the country for less visible, dynamic...
...Crimson editor wrote, "The philosophy and competence of Pusey's successor will largely determine the University's future...