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...explore its traditionally uneasy relationship to the arts, acknowledging that the University had long viewed the practice of the arts as most appropriately located outside the curriculum.”In April 1956, the Committee produced the Brown Report, nearly two years after its creation by President Nathan M. Pusey ’28. Just like the current Task Force on the Arts, the Committee investigated the role of the arts in other college curriculums.Once published, the Report set off a number of college reforms which ranged from symbolic (changing the Department of Fine Arts to the Department of History...
...energetic camera’s eye” onto the man who created the world’s first national park system. The project brought him to campus, home to the Theodore Roosevelt Collection in the Harvard College Library, which is now holding an exhibit in Pusey Library through Dec. 23. Tweed Roosevelt ’64, Vice-Chair of the Theodore Roosevelt Association, says that the association was more than happy to facilitate Burn’s work. “Books reach many Americans. But films reach many, many more,” he said. Burns is famous...
Historical photographs of the president, his trips West, and National Parks will appear in am exhibit opening in Pusey Library this week entitled “Through the Camera Lens: Theodore Roosevelt and the History of Photography...
...steps of Pusey Library, devotees attempt the impossible task of coaxing tape into adhering to damp stone. Magicians are called in with new tapes and new methods. Sometimes their efforts work; the dominant clans earn prominent viewing space. Other times the ritual is a complete failure, and magnificent banners of taped-together posters billow out into the wind before skittering, tumbleweed-like, across the pavement...
...Harvard of a half-century ago was still an ivory tower, complacent in its detachment from the world. This ceased being the case in the 1960s, although it wasn’t fully understood by President Nathan M. Pusey ’28, whose main complaint about the students who disrupted ideas and traditional order in the late 1960s was that they had execrable manners (so bad, indeed, that he called the police hours after their occupation of University Hall, when a little amount of empathy and patience would have avoided the tribulations and histrionics that followed). The University...