Word: moynihan
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...Moynihan was unavailable for comment on the offer last week, and yesterday his office told reporters that he was sick at home and unable to speak to them...
...Moynihan, who is a professor of Education and Urban Studies at the Ed School. returned to Harvard last February after two years as President Nixon's urban affairs counselor. While still in Washington, he had told interviewers that he expected to be offered a post in the Government Department upon his return to Cambridge, but he received no such invitation. He has discussed the Cornell offer with several friends in the Government faculty...
...spokesman for Cornell yesterday denied that Moynihan has been offered the post, stating that "the faculty committee reviewing the Senior Professor ship has not yet sent its report to the President." The approval of the Cornell President and Board of Trustees, however, is usually viewed as a formality in faculty appointments, and the actual decision on the offer would be made by the faculty committee before it consults the President...
Samuel P. Huntington, Thompson Professor of Government and Chairman of the Government Department, explained yesterday that the new invitation will not affect Moynihan's status as a professor of Education. "We've invited him, if he's at Harvard and he feels inclined, to offer a course or courses in the Department. This has nothing to do with his title...
...According to Huntington, the issue of allowing Moynihan to give Government courses has only come up within the past month, but he denied that the offer was an attempt to keep Moynihan from going to Cornell...