Word: putnam
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...persons per meeting to 400, and the influx was mainly of junior members. Order and structure were breaking down, the professors felt. People were demanding a Faculty steering committee and even students on Faculty committees. In addition, and perhaps most alarming to them, some professors, particularly Hilary Putnam, professor of Philosophy and the Faculty's lone wolf member of SDS, were making unheard-of demands on political issues, like the War and racism at Harvard...
...University has made definite plans to build 94 low-income units on Putnam Ave, and will probably begin leasing these units in a year's time. Edward S. Gruson, assistant to President Pusey for Community Affairs, declined yesterday tocomment on Harvard's plans for the Treeland site...
...hysterical concern for academic freedom and serenity, the Faculty ignores all this, objecting only to those portions of the CRR resolution dealing with their own responsibilities. When Samuel S. Bowles, assistant professor of Economics, says, "the Faculty is totally out of touch with the student body," and Hilary W. Putnam, professor of Philosophy, calls the CRR "machinery of political repression," the Faculty does not hear, or perhaps does not care: "Putnam feels that any effort to penalize misconduct infringes on the student's right to militancy," David S. Landes, professor of History, told the Faculty Tuesday. "We need these mechanisms...
Garrett Birkoff '32, Gordon Putnam Professor of Pure and Applied Mathematics, told the pickets he wanted to go through, but he was refused entrance because he would not identify himself as a non-administrator...
However the Faculty overwhelmingly defeated, 215-36, a motion by Hilary W. Putnam, professor of Philosophy, supporting the three demands voted on Monday by striking students...