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DISAGREEMENTS between labor and management are nothing to write home about. But the undercurrent of dissatisfaction with the University has not always existed, many workers say. They point to the administration of former President Nathan M. Pusey '28 (one certainly not free of all labor troubles) as a time of relative harmony. The workers swallowed the negotiated agreements, however imperfect, because of identification with the Harvard community and a personal relationship with the University administrators. "President Pusey had the philosophy that students and staff were part of the same Harvard community, and he could relate to the lowest...
President Pusey himself says he does not remember serious labor conflicts. "They were all my friends," he says. "I happen to have liked these people and I knew a lot of them. I was always conscious of the important role every employee played in the institution." A tinge of paternalism may have colored Pusey's remarks and characterized his administration. But, as General Counsel Daniel Steiner '54 points out, fiscal and legal developments of recent years have made the University a more bureaucratic institution...
Sears answered questions during much of his one and a half hour talk and discussed his days as a procession leader in Harvard graduation, when his main responsibility "was to make sure President Pusey got to his seat...
Nathan M. Pusey '28, former president of Harvard, warned in 1955 of the dangers of a close association between universities and business interests...
...years later, the Harvard Corporation issued a "Statement of Policy on Conflicts of Interest for the Faculty of Arts and Sciences," which discounted Pusey's concerns about academic autonomy. This document left conflict of interest judgements to individual professors, and counts "consultant services making use of the employee's general research or scientific background, where there is no possibility of preferred disclosure of University research results to an outside organization," as a "clearly permissible activity...