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...Theater, where a hushed overflow audience listened intently to his message. Bea's three lectures were part of an impressive four-day theological colloquium, inspired by the Vatican Council and attended by 150 of the nation's leading Protestant and Catholic scholars. Said Harvard's President Nathan Pusey: "We thought it would be perhaps a hundred years before we could come to the kind of occasion we have here...
When the noted international art dealer Georges Wildenstein was 14 years old, his father. Nathan, gave him two small works of art that were to become more precious to him than all the masterpieces that he later bought and sold. The gifts were illuminated miniatures that had originally been pages in a late 15th century manuscript, and they were the start of what is today the world's biggest and best private collection. Last week 70 items from that collection were on public display at the Cloisters, the way-uptown adjunct of Manhattan's Metropolitan Museum...
Much of the problem comes from misaddressed letters. One, which was sent to the "Harvard University Tiddley Wink Team, c/o Nathan M. Pusey," was forwarded to the Harvard Athletic Association before it finally reached the stars...
...also avoided limiting the amount of work professors do off-campus. Nathan H. Frank, professor of physics at MIT and chairman of the committee which has been reviewing MIT's policy on industrial moonlighting, suggested that the advisory work is unavoidable. "The need for top talent exceeds the supply," he said, "and we must recognize that as long as this condition exists the nation must use talented people in multiple capacities...
Sitting at his favorite place in the Widener reading room, near the windows and directly off the center aisle, Gridley often wondered why Nathan Pusey had chosen Massachusett Hall for his office and left the real seat of power to any chance comer. He turned to the left and surveyed the Yard; all of Harvard lay below his throne. A bearded old man hurrying to finish his last book sat across from a closely twined couple not even pretending an interest in the copy of Burckhardt open before them. Through the main arch he could just make out the automatic...