President Pusey, in his annual Report to be released today, says that last year was a "dismal" and "costly" one for Harvard.

"If there is anything demonstrably false in our recent experience," Pusey said of the 1968-69 academic year, "it is that tactics of violence can be productive of good, that 'they get results.'"

The report, which Pusey delivered last week to the Board of Overseers, covers a wide range of topics, from ROTC, black studies, and last spring's disruptions to academic reforms and Harvard's financial position.

Pusey predicts a "measure of retrenchment" in the University's growth, details the academic and financial cost of last spring's strike, and defends his own decision to call police into University Hall.

He also questions the validity of the Faculty's action against ROTC and says that, despite the "extremely unrepresentative impression given by a few self- righteous zealots," most Harvard students are "thoughtful and concerned individuals" who "care deeply and sensibly about Harvard."

(The full text of Pusey's report will be published in Wednesday's CRIMSON.)

Beginning his description of last spring, Pusey says that "the distressing events of 1968-69 appear to have represented a culmination (if not yet a final resolution) of a sequence of misbegotten attitudes and events which began to evolve several years back."

Pusey traces the origins of the "new style and new intensity in campus political activities" to the 1966 protests against Robert S. McNamara and the 1967 demonstration in which a recruiter from Dow Chemical was held in a room for several hours.

In both cases. Pusey says, the issue was not "the war in Vietnam, but ratherthe coercive tactics employed by some of the demonstrators."

April No Surprise

After the Dow and Paine Hall protests, Pusey says, the "turbulent dramatic events of last April" came as no surprise. University administrators "had seen them coming for a long time, had in fact come to think of them as inevitable because of the dog-like persistence of some few determined young rebels."

"What was perplexing was the failure of the community at large accurately to have assessed the rebels' intent," Pusey adds.

Although the occupation of University Hall was "brought about by a small number of the revolutionaries against the wishes of the majority." their forces "were greatly swollen by many young people who were genuinely and seriously concerned about the professed issues advanced."

Under the circumstances, Pusey says, the decision to call in police was the "least bad" of the available alternatives.

Pusey says the costs of the "tactics of violence" must be measured in "hours wasted and opportunities missed. in the increase in internal political activity at the expense of learning and scholarship. in the erosion of confidence and trust and respect in the promotion of distrust and hostility. the injury done friendship, and the defeat of reason and love."

Specifically, he warns that disruptions might drive away professors and embitter Congress and the public.

Harvard Not Wicked