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...time when universities across the nation buckled under the scrutiny of Senator Joseph McCarthy’s communist witchhunts, President Nathan M. Pusey ’28 sought to balance spreading fears about traitors while maintaining Harvard faculty members’ intellectual freedom...
...Pusey publicly responded by calling an unprecedented full-scale press conference in which he affirmed Harvard’s “absolute and unalterable” opposition to communism, and stated, “a member of the Communist Party is not fit to be on the faculty because he has not the necessary independence of thought and judgment...
Even before Harvard, during his days as president of Lawrence College Pusey had resisted McCarthy’s witchhunts, calling them an attempt to stifle intellectual thought and instill political and social conformity. And in 1952, Pusey was part of a committee opposing McCarthy’s bid for reelection...
...When the guards at Pusey weren’t looking, you could sneak through the tunnel between Pusey and Widener,” said Choi, who wrote a college application essay about sneaking into Widener. (She used a different essay for Harvard...
While no timetable has yet been set, eventually the stack and side entrances, like the one at Pusey, will check cards electronically as well...