1965: In his Baccalaureate address, Pusey notes “a new and rather disturbing seriousness of tone” in the anti-war demonstrations.

1966: Two hundred demonstrators stage an on-campus seven hourblockade of a recruiter at the Dow Chemical Company, principal supplier of napalm to the U.S. military. Pusey condemns actions of students and puts 74 on probation.

1968: In his January annual report, Pusey calls antiwar protestors “a small group of over-eager young in evidence on many campuses who feel they have a special calling to redeem society.”

1969: Pusey meets with the Student-Faculty Council in March about the ROTC. He supports it because “students will want to satisfy their military obligations this way.”

April 9, 1969: Two to three hundred students occupy University Hall’s Faculty Room to protest the ROTC presence on the Harvard campus. At 8 p.m. Pusey says the protestors’ allegations had “no basis in fact.”

April 11, 1969, 5:00 a.m.: Pusey summons 200 state troopers who violently remove the protestors from University Hall. Students boycott classes.

April 22, 1969: Faculty votes to give students a role in creating and running academic departments. Student strike ends.

1969: Thirty seniors walk out of Commencement in protest.