Nathan Pusey

Nathan Pusey (born April 4, 1907, Council Bluffs, Iowa, U.S.—died November 14, 2001, New York, New York) was an American educator, president of Harvard University (1953–71), who greatly enhanced the school’s endowment and educational facilities and revitalized its teaching of the humanities. From 1971 until his retirement in 1975 he was president of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. Pusey was educated at Harvard (A.B., 1928; M.A., 1932; Ph.D., 1937) and began his teaching career as...