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...Pusey had once attended a plethora of Harvard sporting events, and had stayed on generally good terms with students as late as the mid-1960s, Bethell says. Three years later students were spitting in his face...
...years between his departure and his death yesterday, Pusey remained unapologetic. “The students just talked about the brutality of that thing,” Pusey told The Crimson last year. “But the cops were well behaved for the most part. Students jumped out of the windows. That wasn’t the cops’ fault...
...Pusey said he forgave the student occupiers, but still spoke critically of the faculty members who supported them...
Rosovsky says that he felt like Pusey opened up late in his life, and probably thought better of his actions in later years, even if he refused to admit it. “I’m sure that if he had had the experience, known what he knew later, he would have acted differently,” Rosovsky said...
During his 18-year tenure as president of the University, Nathan M. Pusey ’28 presided over sweeping changes at Harvard. Today, students are likely to cite the University Hall takeover in 1969 as the most memorable event of Pusey’s administration. But Pusey deserves to be remembered for his extended, distinguished service to the University. Pusey transformed the University’s infrastructure, brought many of the country’s most able administrators to Harvard and steadfastly defended University’s right to academic liberty and freedom from outside influence...