Harvard Law School - Yearbook (Cambridge, MA)

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NATHAN MARSH PUSEY President of Harvard University HE twenty-fourth president of Harvard was born in Council Bluffs, Iowa, on April 4, 1907. Grad- uating from Abraham Lincoln High School in Coun- cil Bluffs, he entered Harvard College, where he maiored in English and Comparative Literature. After receiving his A.B. degree magna cum laude in 1928, he traveled for a year in Europe and then became a teacher at Riverdale Country School, outside New York City. Receiving his Master of Arts degree in 1932, he served as a part-time Assistant in History at Harvard during 1932-1933 and spent the following year in Greece as an Archibald Coolidge Fellow. President Pusey went to Lawrence College in 1935 as a Sophomore Tutor in an experimental program of liberal arts education. He then re- turned to Harvard to complete his graduate work, receiving his Ph.D. in 1937. From 1938 to 1940 he taught at Scripps Col- lege 1California1 as Assistant Professor of History and Literature. ln 1940, he ioined the faculty of Wesleyan University to take part in the develop- ment of new liberal arts courses for freshmen and sophomores. He became Associate Professor of Classics in 1943. A member of the Harvard Chapter of Phi Beta Kappa, he holds numerous honorary degrees in- cluding the LL.D. from Columbia 119541, Brown 119541, and Princeton 119541, and an L.H.D. from Lawrence 119541. Among his other honors, he is a Trustee of the Carnegie Foundation for the Ad- vancement of Teaching, and a member of the Amer- ican Academy of Arts and Sciences. 10