Word: putnam
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Many observers speculated that the Faculty member might be Hilary Putnam, professor of Philosophy, a member of the Progressive Labor Party. There was no way of knowing where the case would go in the months ahead...
Hilary W. Putnam, professor of Philosophy, has been trying without success to meet with Dean Dunlop over the past week to discuss remarks by Dunlop which, Putnam says, "intimidate radical faculty." Putnam may be charged with participating in the disruption of the March 26 "Counter Teach...
...Putnam first tried to bring along eight Harvard Faculty members and two Harvard employees to talk with Dunlop and then yesterday sought to bring seven Harvard Faculty members, two representatives from M. I. T., one from Boston State, and one from UMass. Dunlop refused to meet with employees or faculty from other universities, but he offered to see Putnam accompanied by up to four Harvard Faculty members...
...Putnam refused to meet that condition, and he has now chosen not to see Dunlop...
...Putnam said last night that he took a statement by Dunlop in the CRIMSON of May 7 to mean that he "might be fired over the summer, without any Faculty committees involved, for simply being at Sanders Theatre." He added that he tried to bring representatives from other universities because "if I'm fired faculty elsewhere will figure that nobody's safe...