Word: lipset
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SEYMOUR MARTIN LIPSET, professor of Government and Social Sciences, takes a somewhat different tack. Lipset points out that Washington (unlike Paris, London, and Moscow) is one of the few major capitals which doesn't support a major university. The result, he contends, has been a marked lack of communication between the scholars and officials. Although the Kennedy Institute will not completely make up for Harvard's misplacement (or Washington's), it will be a great deal better than nothing and should foster closer ties between the Government and academia...
Although The Institute cannot substitute for the benefits of an academic capitol, Lipset says, it will allow the scholars a greater say in what goes on in Washington--something they have long looked forward to. One of the problems of our geographic location, he continues, is that when intellectuals go to work for the government they are separated from their academic work -- causing a kind of schizophrenia. Harvard has always supported the idea of closer relations between Cambridge and Washington as can be seen from a series of Harvard institutions -- the Graduate School of Public Affairs, the Center for International...
...Lipset does not subscribe to the theory that scholars will be enticed into the narrow world of policy-problem-solving, because he believes that academic prestige and rewards go to the "pure social scientists who don't dirty themselves in the outside world." "As soon as you make the cover of Time magazine, he explains, "your academic career is shot." There are two different kinds of people in the academic world, Lipset continues, "those who are looking for their place in politics, and those who are waiting to write a book which will live...
...since then, Inkeles, Huntington, Chenery Lipset, and Raymond Vernon--all concerned primarily with development--have become senior Faculty members (now known as the Executive Committee). Of this years' $761,000 allocated for research, $477,000 is going towards the study of development and modernization, And when added to the $1,279,000 spent by the Development Advisory Service last year, the dominating interest in development is even more apparent...
...remind each other what is going on elsewhere. Four of these professorships went to the Law School, one to the School of Education, and four to the Faculty of Arts and Sciences and the School of Public Administration. So far the grant has provided professorships, or split professorships, to Lipset, Richard A. Musgrave, Professor of Economics, and Jerome A. Cohen, Professor of Law. Deutsch will receive another chair next year, and M. Crozier, a visiting Professor in Social Relations from France, has a temporary professorship this spring term...