PUSEY, NATHAN (MARSH)

born April 4, 1907, Council Bluffs, Iowa, U.S. U.S. educator, president of Harvard University (195371), who greatly enhanced the school's endowment and educational facilities and revitalized its teaching of the humanities. From 1971 until his retirement in 1975 he was president of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. Pusey was educated at Harvard (A.B., 1928; M.A., 1932; Ph.D., 1937), and began his teaching career as a tutor in an experimental liberal arts program at Lawrence College in Appleton, Wis., and then as a teacher at Scripps College in Claremont, Calif. In 1940 he returned to New England to develop a freshmansophomore liberal arts program at Wesleyan University in Middletown, Conn., where he became associate professor of classics in 1943. In 1944 Pusey returned to Lawrence College as president, and in 1953 he was appointed president of Harvard, succeeding James B. Conant. Pusey immediately devoted his efforts to increasing Harvard's endowmentas he had done at Lawrence Collegeand his efforts were highly successful. He was also instrumental in raising faculty salaries and adding new buildings to the campus. Antiwar protests in the late 1960s twice forced the closing of the campus, and in 1969 bloodshed resulted when Pusey called in the Cambridge police to end a student sit-in.