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Nathan M. Pusey ’28, Harvard’s 24th president, dies at the age of 94. Serving during the 1950s and 1960s, his administration led the University’s first major fundraising campaign and also focused on undergraduate education. His presidency ended in controversy as a result of the 1969 break up of the University Hall takeover...
...other words, what worked for a middle-aged academic white male in the 1950s, whose apron-clad wife ran his household, raised 2.5 children and had a martini waiting when he arrived home, does not necessarily work for the modern-day intellectual—male or female...
Despite Summers’ assessment of the University’s sterling record in the 1950s, closer scrutiny of Harvard’s response to McCarthyism reveals a public façade not entirely consistent with reality...
...1950s and 1960s, however, students demanded more courses dealing with contemporary issues, such as the structure of the American political system and energy development. The Faculty introduced many new Gen Ed courses with narrower foci, but these courses were sometimes criticized as obscure or random...
...1950s, Pusey saw the increasing liberalization of the student body and the shift away from the old aristocratic mentality...