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...apparent nobody, plucked out of nowhere, who had never even written a book,” Time wrote in its March 1954 profile of Pusey, an Iowa native, president of tiny Lawrence College in Wisconsin, and first non-New Englander to lead Harvard...
...Conant really didn’t think that somebody who took the Fifth Amendment deserved to be kept on, and said so,” says Brandeis historian Morton Keller, co-author of the book Making Harvard Modern. “Pusey, who had clashed with McCarthy in Wisconsin, knew pretty much who he was, and I think by the standards of the time was stronger on academic freedom than Conant...
After beating No. 3 Princeton and No. 2 Wisconsin in their last two match-ups, the No. 1 Radcliffe lightweight crew fell to the Tigers and the Badgers in the Grand Final of the IRA National Championship on Saturday in Camden, N.J., securing a bronze medal...
...Wisconsin dominated the event in 7:06.36, and the Tigers (7:18.02) edged the Black and White (7:19.04) by two seats...
...part, Thompson put the emphasis on the "personal responsibility" of each American to take control of his own weight. This past year, Thompson, the former governor of Wisconsin, decided to take his own advice that "small steps can make a huge difference. Thompson lost 15 pounds and began wearing a pedometer to ensure that he took at least 10,000 steps a day. Next, he "put [his] whole department on a diet." "My secretary's gone down 7 dress sizes," he said...