After ten years at Harvard, Pusey spoke of his misgivings at Leaving Lawrence- "the personal joy and pleasure of being in a small community were not dismissed lightly."

Adjustment to Harvard

"The President must have so many focal points of concern that no one problem can occupy him for too long," he said in 1963. The CRIMSON that year commented: "Pusey has adjusted gradually to these diversified pressures, but adjustment has forced him to abandon the intimate contact with college policy, faculty, and student body which he had at Lawrence."

"When I first came to Harvard," Pusey said in 1963. "I had been warned how long it takes to get anything done here. So many people get involved in a project that years will go by before something is actually finished."

In his letter to the Corporation yesterday, Pusey said. "I have learned in 25 years as a college president that a considerable interval (not uncommonly the administration of a university between something like ten years) is required in the undertaking of a major project and its achievement."

Tuition Raises

When Pusey came to Cambridge tuition was $800; in September 1964 it was $1760. In September, 1971 it will be $2600. Pusey urged the tuition increases from the beginning largely because of his determination to increase Faculty salaries.

Most of the increases depended in part on the Program for Harvard College-a short-term capital funds drive launched by Pusey that raised $88 million by early in 1960-the greatest material achievement of the first ten years. Pusey called the statement in which he announced the success of the Program "the most momentous announcement which has fallen to my lot."

In the quest for additional funds he turned more and more to the Federal government for assistance but admitted that "government encroachment on Harvard's treasured independence has been a major worry of mine."

Like former President Conant. Pusey refused to accept any classified research.

In 1963 Pusey saw problems in maintaining Harvard and Radcliffe as separate institutions, in part "because of a change in the mores" of the undergraduate group. He said then that "men, and women too, must have an opportunity to be alone sometimes," and that this would only be possible if the separate identities of Harvard and Radcliffe were preserved.

Relations With Radcliffe

During all the discussion last year that led to the proposed merger of the two institutions-tentatively scheduled for July 1, 1970-Pusey said little beyond his oft-quoted statement that there could be no coeducational living without merger. But Mary I. Bunting. President of Radcliffe, said last night that "Pusey had always been a friend to Radcliffe," and that his statement last fall was actually "an effort to accelerate merger."

"He had a very clear feeling that Harvard should take just as much responsibility for the education of women as of men." Mrs. Bunting said.

Shortly after being elected President of Harvard. Pusey was faced with the problem of dealing with Sen Joseph R. McCarthy's attacks on Communism.

In 1954 McCarthy telegrammed Pusey and demanded action in the case of Wendell M. Furry then associate professor of Physics. Furry-accused of being a member of the Communist Party in 1938 and 1939-had been investigated by special Faculty and Corporation committees in 1952 and 1953 and found guilty of "grave misconduct."

The Corporation decided not to dismiss him, however, because the "grave misconduct" had been committed some nine years earlier.

In his reply to McCarthy Pusey said, "Harvard is absolutely, unalterably and finally oposed to Communism." and that, so far as he knew, there were no Communists on the Harvard Faculty.