Harvard Law School - Yearbook (Cambridge, MA)

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FACULTY PEAKING of The Law School as I Have Known It, reprinted in the Hm'1faf'c! Law School Bllllefill, October, 1960, Professor Scott speaks of his student days, of the teachers Ames, Wfilliston, Gray, Smith, Beale, and Wfambaugh. XWhen I was a student, as I have said, there were only seven professors and two assistant professors. Now there are more than Hfty of the Facultyfi 1-lere are these men, the men who are giving us the foundation on which we will build in the fu- ture as their predecessors gave Professor Scott a foundation on which we ourselves could build during the half of 11 century since we left the School.

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NA'I'l1AN MARSH PUSEY Prerifieizl of Hm'wz1'd Uniizerrity HE twenty-fourth president of Harvard was born in Council Bluffs, Iowa, on April 4, 1907. Graduating from Abraham Lincoln High School in Council Bluffs, he entered Harvard Col- lege where he majored in English and Compara- tive Literature. After receiving his A.B. degree lzmglzrz mm 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 M.A. degree in 1932, he served as 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 College as Assistant Professor of History and Literature. In 1940, he joined the faculty Of Wesleyan Uni- versity to take part in the development of new liberal arts courses for freshmen and sophomores. I-Ie became Associate Professor of Classics in 1943. He then returned to Lawrence where he served as President from 1944 to 1955. In 1955 Mr. Pusey was elected President of Harvard. His administration has been marked by vigorous efforts to increase the endowment funds of the University and to improve its physical plant.