Word: putnam
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...very effectively run enterprise," agrees Robert A. Lawrence, a State Street manager who has served on Wellesley College's board of trustees along with Cabot and Putnam. "It's made a lot of sense for Harvard, because Harvard's endowment is so large that the expense for an in-house management company makes it very competitive...
...Robert Putnam, incoming chairman of the Government Department, says the conflict of research and other duties is not reserved for junior faculty. "All of us have situations where we have to write a lecture for the next morning," he says. "At every major university, you are expected to do a good job of teaching and research...
...smaller departments, junior faculty seem to feel more integrated. In one small department, an assistant professor says, "I don't feel like a junior faculty member at all." "At the margins, departments can do things to improve...the climate and relations between junior and senior faculty," says Putnam, who adds that this is going to be one of his highest priorities as chairman in Government. Besides, says History Department Chairman John Womack Jr. '59, the distance across the tenure line hasn't gotten worse in the last 15 years: "I don't think it's any more the case...
...also resisted persistent pressure to divest from firms with operations in South Africa. Except perhaps for the Mass Hall takeover, which ended peacefully after a week, there has never been a crisis and the Corporation has been able to study the issue in excruciating detail. Treasurer George Putnam Jr. '49 went to South Africa a few years ago, and as chairman of the Corporation Committee on Shareholder Responsibility Calkins has become something of an expert on the subject...
Andrew P. Heiskell '28 took charge of finding Roderick M. MacDougall '51 to replace Putnam--who retires this month--as treasurer, and says he is especially interested in helping choose who gets Honorary Degrees at Commencement Charles P. Schlicter, a professor of physics at the University of Illinois, is widely respected for his judgement on academic matters. The freshman member of the board, Colman M. Mockler Jr. '52, has not yet received wide attention in any specific area...