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...Class of 1918's representative to the Harvard Fund Council. Ginn, protesting the appointment of J. Robert Oppenheimer '26 as William James Lecturer, called the famous scientist "a known Communist sympathizer and confessed liar in a matter of espionage." Sen. Joseph R. McCarthy (R-Wis.) also challenged then-President Nathan M. Pusey's appointment of Oppenheimer, whom McCarthy considered a "security risk...
...Kennedy '40 was sworn in as president, and Alan Sheppard became the first American to enter space. The Peace Corps-sent its first troops overseas. the threat of nuclear war hung precariously over the globe. At Harvard, more than 4000 students rioted to protest a decision by then-President Nathan M. Pusey '28 to print diplomas for the Class of '61 in English rather than in Latin...
...amount of time professors spent doing outside work increased, so did concern that the University would be adversely affected. In 1955, former President Nathan M. Pusey '28 felt compelled to reiterate the purpose of the University...
...Most of Nathan I. Huggin's first year as the chairman of Harvard's Afro-American Studies department was a tranquil transition to the task of building a solid academic program. But the department's tradition of controversy resumed this April when Josephine Wright, assistant professor of Afro-American studies, filed a complaint with the federal Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charging that Harvard discriminated against her on the basis of race and sex. She also said she might sue the university, pending the EEOC's decision on her case...
Leaving a secure academic position at Columbia University to come to Harvard last spring was no scholarly retreat for Nathan I. Huggins. W.E.B. DuBois Professor of History and Afro-American studies. His acceptance of Dean Rosovsky's offer last year put him at the helm of a department that has seen more administrative politics in its 12-year life than any other. Members of the Harvard community and scholars around the nation have viewed the Faculty's hasty decision to create an Afro-American studies department in 1969 as a concession to the Black militancy accompanying that year's spring...