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President Nathan M. Pusey, in his 18th and final Annual Report, told the Board of Overseers, "The advances made [during 1969-70] were little short of remarkable in both number and quality in view of the almost continuous disruption or threat of disruption...
While no one, including Bok himself, can say with any certainty exactly what it is a Harvard President does, preliminary indications are that Nathan M. Pusey's successor will, at the very least, ease some of the more severe tensions which have contributed to the disintegration of University life in recent years...
...university which Nathan M. Pusey '28 will turn over to his successor next June is as different from the one he inherited in 1953 as today's students are from the undergraduates of the McCarthy era. Derek C. Book, who will become Harvard's 25th president on Commencement day, will have to run a university with twice as many officers, half again as many students, and three times as much money as the one Pusey found when he returned to Cambridge from Appleton, Wisconsin...
...first dean whom Nathan Pusey appointed as President of Harvard announced his retirement a few weeks ago, and all of his colleagues seemed to apply the same word to him. "He was a builder", one professor said. The word builder would work equally well if applied to Pusey or any of the men he raised to high positions in the University. The physical dimensions of Harvard, both college and graduate schools, have increased phenomenally in every direction during his eighteen years in office...
...that Harvard is interdenominational, and recognizes the right of members of all faiths to worship freely in Memorial Church. Most of them never get to Harvard, and few of those who do remember this little statement, or realize its significance. For it marked the beginning of the end of Nathan Pusey as a president with a constituency...