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...remembrances of his time at Harvard, Pusey talks a lot about his work with the Corporation and the Overseers, with whom he was close personally...
...When Pusey said in 1953 that he hoped the University would start a revolution in students' minds, he did not know what...
...Formal education has first to make young people see that the values they have absorbed almost automatically from their culture are not necessarily the highest values," Pusey told a reporter at the start of his presidency. "Young people must become dissatisfied with the culture they accept and this is why it is necessary first to start revolutions in their minds and spirits...
...revolution that came on April 9, 1969, was not what Pusey was expecting. Militant students stormed University Hall, ejected the deans and occupied the building for 17 hours before Pusey called in the police to kick them out. Four hundred police officers stormed the building in a raid that was criticized as excessive and bloody. The student body went on strike in protest...
...Pusey left Harvard a little over a year after the tumult, citing a need for a new president from a younger generation to begin the "fresh chapter" that was starting in the University's history. He would not have reached the mandatory retirement age, until which many had expected him to serve, for another three years...