Word: putnam
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...Putnam also said a Berkeley Professor, Nelson W. Polsby, will make a decision on a joint tenure offer by the Government Department and the Kennedy School of Government after a one-year stint at Harvard next year...
...announcement comes at a time when the make-up of Harvard's cadre of American political experts is in a state of flux. One scholar this year accepted a lifetime post in the department, and two others are currently weighing such offers, said Government Department Chairman Robert D. Putnam. He also said the department plans to appoint two more senior faculty members within the next few years...
...Putnam said that while the turnover is unusually heavy, it does not threaten the department's ability to fulfill its teaching and research functions. "Departments of the size of ours have turnover," he said...
Kenneth Shepsle, whose area of expertise is American politics, and James Ault, who is highly regarded for his research on voting and public opinion, have both accepted lifetime posts and will begin teaching at Harvard next year, Putnam said...
...BENJAMIN FRANKLIN was to Max Weber's theory of the Protestant work ethic, George Putnam--and dozens of his good friends and relatives--could have been to a disquisition on Old Money in Boston and its influence at Harvard. But instead, we get a soft, silly chapter that does little more than recreate a day in the life of George Putnam. And a pretty dull day at that...