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...year when, as the editors wrote, “above all else loomed the issue of McCarthy, the senator and the ism,” Pusey emphasized adopting a faith appropriate to the realities of the twentieth century...
...Students and faculty alike were at first afraid that Pusey might attempt to reestablish compulsory chapel or assembly similar to that which [was] conducted at Lawrence,” The Crimson wrote. “[H]e has made clear that he is not interested in compulsion or revivalism in the prayer-meeting sense. But he is intensely interested in providing facilities for religious study and participation for those who want them...
...There are all sorts of explanations, vague ones like ‘the religious tenor of the times,’ specific ones such as the example set by the personal devotion of President Pusey,” The Crimson wrote in an October 1953 editorial. “But regardless of cause, a revival is in the offing...
...Before Pusey took office, the future of the Divinity School had been uncertain, as the increased emphasis on preserving Harvard’s non-sectarian identity and devoting resources to scientific study had led some of the University’s leaders to wonder if the school was a relic of the past that should be eliminated...
...While Pusey did not solely focus on the Divinity School at the expense of other graduate schools, his early commitment to theological studies made it clear that the University would not take the route of shutting the school down...