Word: nathan
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...radicals were also unmoved by a scathing answer to their demands from President Nathan M. Pusey. They had charged that the university planned to tear down Negro slums in Roxbury to make room for the expanding Harvard Medical School, and that members of the Corporation had illegitimate vested interests in preserving ROTC on campus: "These businessmen want Harvard to continue producing officers for the Viet Nam war or for use against black rebellions at home for political reasons." Pusey flatly denied that the university planned to destroy the housing. He also noted that Harvard had recently taken account of student...
...S.D.S. radicals and their allies had clearly violated Harvard's tradition of open communication and rational discourse. Yet there was some feeling on campus that Nathan Pusey himself, in a much lesser way, might have violated the tradition by summoning the police without gaining a consensus of his community. A distant and pompous-seeming figure to undergraduates ever since he became president in 1953, Pusey rules his campus more like a guiding presence than an order-giving commander, and he has admitted to being perplexed by youthful demands for instant action. At the same time, he says that he admires...
...police because continued occupation of the administration building would have made it "virtually impossible" for the faculty to conduct its business and would have brought the university to an indefinite standstill. In defending the autonomy of Harvard against McCarthyism in the '50s, and in countless speeches since then, Nathan Pusey has amply proved his deep commitment to intellectual freedom...
President of Harvard, Nathan M. Pusey, big dome embodiment of the old-school tie who blew the whistle, finds himself both beloved and beleaguered. His job could be on the line. His own Faculty neither backs him nor does it disown...
Despite an apparent disclaimer from Harvard Pres. Nathan M. Pusey in the face of student protest, officials at the university and Affiliated Hospitals Center, Inc., reaffirmed yesterday that 182 apartments in Roxbury will be demolished to make room for a $50 million hospital complex...