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...getting things done, had a vision, and he pushed for it doggedly. Within several years of his swearing-in, concentration and distribution requirements were here to stay. So were almost all the academic rules and institutions that today are fixtures. And, in 1929, Lowell attained what Nathan M. Pusey, one of his successors, has called "the crowning achievement in Lowell's long and fruitful effort to reform undergraduate education." With a large grant from Edward Harkness, disgruntled Yalie, Lowell established the House system. Within four years, Lowell, then 72 years old, had stepped down, content. In his revolutionary House system...
...serving as mayor--largely an honorary position, except in crises--in 1969, when student demonstrators broke into Harvard's University Hall to protest the school's involvement in the Vietnam War. The students had broken in during the morning, and by 2 p.m., Sullivan says, Harvard president Nathan M. Pusey '28 decided he wanted the police to clear the building immediately...
...angry mob, chanting "Latin Si, Pusey No," marched from the steps of Widener to Pusey's house, where, after an attempt to storm the house failed, Pusey addressed the crowd with a poem...
...diploma controversy, however, did not end with the dispersion of the rioters. Bodgett threatened at the time to hand out 10,000 fake English diplomas on street corners, and Cambridge City Councilor Alfred E. Vellucci warned, "I, being of Latin ancestory, will carry this fight to Dr. Pusey...
...amount of time professors spent doing outside work increased, so did concern that the University would be adversely affected. In 1955, former President Nathan M. Pusey '28 felt compelled to reiterate the purpose of the University...