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...Pusey brought with him to Cambridge this reputation as a McCarthy opponent, at a time when Harvard had taken center stage in the congressional investigations of communist activity at universities...
...Pusey took office, McCarthy kept up his public tirades against Harvard—which had a reputation as the “Kremlin on the Charles”—and urged the University to fire Furry...
...Pusey, a classics scholar, did not share the views of his national security-minded predecessor, a scientist who had worked on the Manhattan Project...
...Conant really didn’t think that somebody who took the Fifth Amendment deserved to be kept on, and said so,” says Brandeis historian Morton Keller, co-author of the book Making Harvard Modern. “Pusey, who had clashed with McCarthy in Wisconsin, knew pretty much who he was, and I think by the standards of the time was stronger on academic freedom than Conant...
...November, McCarthy sent a telegram to Pusey demanding to know how the University would act on Furry’s case...