Word: putnam
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...property was bequeathed to the University by Mrs. Charles R.L. Putnam in 1969, with the provision that it be sold and proceeds go to the Medical School...
Last week, for example, a newspaper account noted the revitalization of Harvard's only fraternity ("It isn't 1955," a resurgent membership assures us. "No one is going to jump into an icy Charles without clothes on anymore"). The next day, a story reported that Hilary Putnam, the Faculty Old Faithful of the radical left, has severed his association with P.L. and will seek no further affiliation with radical groups. In retrospect, Putnam says, it was a mistake for P.L. and SDS to couple racism and academic freedom in the Herrnstein controversy...
...Putnam, who has been teaching at Wellesley for ten years, begins each term's classes by declaring herself a communist and telling her students that if they care to subscribe to the party newspaper, they should contact her, the student said...
...Ruth Putnam left Germany and came to the United States in 1948. She received her Bachelor of Science and PhD at the University of California in Los Angeles...
...Boston, she has been active in the antiwar movement and the Cambridge rent control campaign. Putnam said that PL is the only political party she has ever joined...