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This isn't the presidential search of today in which a select committee will pick Neil L. Rudenstine's successor. It is instead the search of 1953--James B. Conant '13 was preparing to step down and Nathan M. Pusey was standing in the wings...
Nathan M. Pusey '28 was a late addition to the selection process. Although he had been previously suggested by Brown President Henry Wriston and distinguished academic Victor Butterfield (both formerly of Lawrence College, where Pusey was president), but it was his visit to New York City in May 1953 that finally caught the Corporation's attention...
Harvard President Nathan M. Pusey '28, an old McCarthy rival from his Wisconsin days, vehemently denied the senator's charges. He said that while he believed there were no Communists on the Harvard faculty, if he found any he would dismiss them...
...member of the Communist party is not fit to be on the faculty because he has not the necessary independence of thought and judgment," Pusey said...
...deplore the use of the Fifth Amendment," Pusey said in a later statement of his support for the Corporation's decision in the Furry case. "But we do not regard the use of the constitutional safeguard as a confession of guilt...