Word: reporter
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...problem with the President's Report lies not in any failure to distinguish acceptable from unacceptable protest, nor even so much in his untimely vituperation against the activist element. It lies in Pusey's blindness to the magnitude of disaffection at Harvard. Like the author of another recent "annual report," Pusey senses a certain restlessness--but his faith in the loyalty and middle-of-the-road acquiescence of all but a handful of his students remain unshaken. When he undertook to insult students who believe American society is rotten and are in need of redemption, Pusey did not realize...
Asked why Pusey had used the report to attack student activist, one high college official shook his head and answered, "I don't know. It certainly seemed excessive to me." Indeed, this is the question that everyone was asking about the report, and no one seemed able to answer...
Perhaps the most frequently voiced explanation for the report is that Pusey is simply out of touch with the undergraduate population. Those students who found his remarks gratuitous were doubly upset because they so rarely hear from Pusey in any context...
...GLANCE at the President's report will reveal the major cause of this shortcoming. Running Harvard University is a gigantic task. In the last ten years, Harvard's budget has tripled to $150 million. There were 14,779 students enrolled in the University last year, not counting 4840 in the summer school and 5469 in various extension courses. The number of corporation appointees was 6788, up from 3496 a decade ago. This administrative burden leaves the President with relatively little time to devote to the College, even less to college students...
THERE is no purpose to be served by beating these departed dobbins, except to point out that in the minds of many undergraduates, Pusey's devotion to civil liberties is erratic at best. Commenting on the report to the Overseers one Faculty member observed, "If 500 students had gone down to Yale this fall and started a riot in which property was damaged and people were arrested, Pusey wouldn't have given a damn. Oh, he might have had some pablum for the press, but he wouldn't have cared about...