Originally from Council Bluffs, Iowa, Pusey won a scholarship to Harvard University out of high school and went on to earn bachelor's, master's, and doctorate degrees in the classics at Harvard.
10 Facts About Nathan Pusey
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Nathan Pusey began his academic career as a professor of literature at Scripps College and Wesleyan University before serving as president of Lawrence College from 1944 to 1953.
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Nathan Pusey was born in Council Bluffs, Iowa to John and Rosa Nathan Pusey.
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Nathan Pusey shared a name with another great uncle, Iowa state senator Nathan Marsh Pusey.
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Nathan Pusey's first teaching post after he graduated was at Riverdale Country School.
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Nathan Pusey then taught at Lawrence College, Scripps College, and Wesleyan University.
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Nathan Pusey served as president of Lawrence College, and later as the 24th president of Harvard University.
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Nathan Pusey was an active member of All Saints Episcopal Church in Appleton, Wisconsin, during his presidency of Lawrence College.
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Nathan Pusey vigorously opposed McCarthyism in the 1950s and supported the US Civil Rights Movement in the 1960s.
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Nathan Pusey was a deeply religious man and a somewhat traditionalist scholar, and he was appalled by the student radicalism that raged in American universities in the late 1960s.