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Their hopes turned to the new dean of the GSPA, Don K. Price, whose tenure saw the doubling of the school's endowment and the apppointment of the first professor responsible only to the GSPA. Harvard President Nathan M. Pusey '28 told Price that the school would be closed unless he could prove that it deserved Harvard's support...
Harvard claims a long tradition of defending dissenters. When Physics Professor Wendell Furry and Research Assistant Leon Kamin took the Fifth Amendment before Joseph McCarthy's Senate investigating committee in 1953-54, McCarthy demanded that they be fired, but Harvard's new president, Nathan Pusey, refused. "There is now an especially urgent obligation upon our universities to preserve freedom of inquiry and freedom of teaching," he said. Massachusetts Governor Christian Herter urged Pusey to fire anyone who took the Fifth Amendment, but Pusey stood firm. A decade later, however, he sacked Timothy Leary, then a lecturer in psychology...
Still worse came in the spring of 1969, when the students seized University Hall, Harvard's administrative nerve center, vandalized the offices and spilled confidential files all over the floor. Crimson Editor James Fallows, | later a speech- writer for Jimmy Carter, reported encountering "the great stone-faced Nathan Pusey, (who) tried to conceal his utter astonishment at the passions tearing up his university." Pusey called in the police, plus 200 state troopers. With a four-foot battering ram, they smashed down the main door; chain cutters, sledgehammers and billy clubs did the rest...
...recipients are Nathan M. Pusey '28, Mary Bunting Smith, David Aloian '49, Erwin N. Griswold, James L. Adams, Kenneth R. Andrews, Edward L. Barnes '38, Marvin Bower, Allan R. Crite, Paul A. Freund, Francis Keppel '38, Margaret G. Kivelson '50, Adetokunbo O. Lucas, Agnes Mongan, Raymond J. Nagle, Edward M. Purcell, Muriel S. Snowden '38, Harry Starr '21, Robert G. Stone Jr. '45, and Carl W. Walter...
When the naive 18-year-old freshman first stepped foot into Harvard Yard in fall, 1924 nobody suspected that the lowa native, Nathan M. Pusey '28, would someday become president of the University...