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Eighteen Years: Milestones of a Presidency

1969: Pusey issues a statement in October against the Vietnam War.

1970: In February, Pusey announces he will retire the following year.

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1970: Pusey gives students academic latitude to protest and be politically involved.

January 11, 1971, Derek Curtis Bok is elected as Pusey’s successor.

January 17, 1971: Pusey authors a 21-page annual report, writing that the “advances made [from 1969-1971] were little short of remarkable in both number and quality in view of the almost continuous disruption or threat of disruption.”

1971: University names underground library after Pusey.

—CLAIRE A. PASTERNACK

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