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...attempts to present Harvard administration policy in terms of Marcuse's "repressive tolerance": call the demonstration "the most serious since I've been here" (Dean Ford), threaten unlimited punishment, and then sneer at the number of people who stayed. And finally, he attempts to pin our action on Hilary Putnam. That's pretty foul for a kindly uncle. Hutch Jenness...
...motion put forth by Professor Putnam to abolish ROTC in any form from the Harvard University campus. Charles E. Allen Jr. '70 Steven Roose '70 Robert W. Steinberg '69 Norman B. Epstein '71 Martin Hanlon '69 Noelle Caskey '70 David Palmer '70 Wesley E. Profit '69 Tracey R. Lecklider '69 Johnathan D. Ritvo '69 Michael A. Bundy '70 Joan S. Rubin Joe McCune '70 James Kilbreth...
...professors. There were respectable moral convictions on all sides, and even among those who, like myself, feel that a University is not the proper place for military preparation there were divergences over the answer to the problem. One does not have to be a moral relativist, pace Professor Putnam, in order to want to weigh arguments and take note of the legitimate concerns even of those whose point of view one rejects. For instance, while I find little justification for the present ROTC program, I recognize the right of students to pursue military preparation as one extra-curricular activity among...
Liberal and radical spokesmen for the Faculty were, respectively, Stanley H. Hoffmann, professor of Government, and Hilary W. Putnam, professor of Philosophy...
...Putnam defended the use of militant tactics on behalf of moral causes. "As a philosopher, I do get depressed about the moral relativism that our colleagues in Social Sciences see fit to embrace," he said. "The idea that on a serious moral issue on which people disagree, neither side can claim the truth seems to me an intolerable position," Putnam added. "What people have, they have because they fought," he said...