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...year was 1971. Dean of Harvard Law School Derek C. Bok had just succeeded the embattled Nathan M. Pusey ’28 as president of Harvard University. John Updike ’54 topped the bestseller list, a war dragged on in Vietnam, and conservative President Richard M. Nixon governed from the Oval Office. On July 1, 2006, newly appointed interim President Bok will again take the reins of the University. Although more than 35 years have passed, the current state of affairs seems to be much the same. Another conservative president sits in the White House, another...
...when he became president in 1971. If you think Harvard is in “crisis” now, it was nothing compared to the mess Bok inherited: a university divided, bitter and exhausted by battles over the Vietnam war, including the infamous decision by his predecessor, Nathan M. Pusey ’28, to call the cops into the Yard when students occupied University Hall. By the time my class arrived on campus in 1975, Bok’s calm and deliberate style had already soothed the waters. Although he may not have done it fast enough...
...really liked having sex in the Widener Stacks, but the Pusey Stacks are okay too. The key is to go to the Gov Docs floor or the PR site,” she suggests. “And go on a long weekend. Saturday of a holiday weekend is a good day because no one is doing homework then...
...wouldn’t be the first Harvard alum to return home after serving as president of another institution. Nathaniel M. Pusey ’28 headed Lawrence College in Appleton, Wis., before becoming Harvard’s 24th president. And Thomas Hill, Class of 1843, was chief of Antioch College in Ohio before he was Harvard’s 20th leader...
...Crimson editorial said that one of Bok’s highest charges would be “to overcome the mammoth negative Pusey legacy,” referring to Bok’s predecessor, Nathan M. Pusey ’28. Pusey faced particularly strong criticism in 1969 for calling police to respond to a student occupation of University Hall...