Word: putnam
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Continental artillery, has set up a row of old and partly rusted cannon, sweating artillerymen stood to their pieces and peered southward across the waters. Alarm guns roared to alert northern batteries and fortifications in the woods along both east and west shores of the island. Major General Israel Putnam hastily ferried over from Manhattan to Long Island with 500 men to support Brigadier General Nathanael Greene's four regiments on fortified Brooklyn Heights. Here a line of redoubts and breastworks zigzags for some two miles between Gowanus Creek and Wallabout...
Major Gen. Israel Putnam...
...pages. Putnam...
...that policy decisions are tightly bound to his selections of deans; this is true in part because once appointed a dean has total control. "He's like a knight at King Arthur's round table. He can tell the king to go to hell any time he wants," Treasurer Putnam says. The unity of policy and decanal choices is also apparent in Bok's annual reports. His 1973-74 report analyzed the fate of the public policy program at the Kennedy School, whose dean, Don K. Price, is retiring this year, and next year's report, Bok says, will address...
...come up I don't know. The most conservative body in the world is a faculty, especially a Faculty of arts and sciences." While Bok downplays the difficulties of setting up compelling incentives and remains optimistic that he can slowly raise funds needed to create new faculty positions, Treasurer Putnam says that tight money has made fundraising for the Kennedy School extremely difficult. "It's been going much slower than President Bok would like. It's been very frustrating...