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...Derek Bok appointed to succeed Nathan M. Pusey '28 in 1971 was a good man with the right values. The Derek Bok who announced his resignation last week is not the same...
...student radicals, then-President Nathan M.Pusey '28 was a rigid reactionary who could not beforgiven for his decision to send in police tobreak up the student takeover of University Hallthe year before. In the eyes of many faculty andalumni, he was an unassertive, unimaginative manwho could not be counted on to take a stand andrestore Harvard to its educational mission...
...Nathan Pusey represented a return, in somerespects, to a pre-Eliot Harvard," Riesman says."He came out of the humanities, developed theDivinity School and supported Memorial Church. Hiswas a Harvard of Houses, a Harvard of tutors, aHarvard of conversation...
Religion, banned as a subject of instruction under the Communists, is no longer off limits, although there are not enough trained teachers or texts to make such study practicable. Anja Meixstatt makes do by introducing the concept of religious differences to her German literature class through discussion of Nathan der Weise, Gotthold Ephraim Lessing's work about religious tolerance. "They may understand Lessing," she explains, "but they don't know about Israel...
...Derek Bok appointed to succeed Nathan M. Pusey '28 in 1971 was a good man with the right values. The Derek Bok who announced his resignation last week is not the same...