In April of 1954 Pusey endorsed a "Joe Must Go" campaign aimed at deposing McCarthy.

"The idea that a scholar must be free to follow his own hunches in pursuing his special studies is not the whim of some modern educator." Pusey said in 1954. "It is of the greatest importance that he know whatever he finds and reports will not penalize him as a man."

University Hall

Last May, after the April occupation of University Hall by over 250 students and the April 10 police bust in Harvard Yard, the Freund Committee-appointed by Pusey to "investigate possible misconduct of members of the University teaching staff" during and after the occupation-was criticized by many as the first such probe since the McCarthy era.

"If there is anything demonstrably false in our recent experience." Pusey said in his annual report this January, "is that tactics of violence can be productive of good, that 'they get results'."

Pusey called the year a "dismal" and "costly" one for Harvard.

He questioned the validity of the Faculty's action against ROTC and said 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."

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

Pusey also predicted severe fiscal problems: "Costs continue to rise. Income will surely be harder to come by. Competition for federal funds will become more intense at a time when science and universities are both declining in public favor."

"The time has come for a renewed effort which will enlist the energies of many younger Harvard men," Pusey said in his letter to the Corporation.

"President Pusey did much before he came to Harvard and has done much more while he has been here," Kane said yesterday. "Harvard and education are in debt to him for his service to them."