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Hoffmann vs. Putnam...
...Putnam Circle...
...principles involved have a bearing on the issue raised by Professor Putnam, though I did not speak on this in the meeting. The independence of the University, as I understand it, means that, within the limits of moral tolerance, the University is not committed to any one political position, just as the outside society does not impose on it any one doctrinal orthodoxy--though in the past this was the rule. The Putnam motions would, in my opinion, if they prevailed, commit the Faculty to a specific general political position which comes very close to a doctrinal orthodoxy. The rationale...
...opposing this, I do not wish for a moment to suggest limiting the rights of individual Faculty members to share the Putnam position. This, however, is very different from committing the Faculty as a whole to it, with the implication that the members who dissented were not cognizant of the moral obligations of a University Faculty. Talcott Parsons Professor of Sociology
Stephen H. Kaplan '69, president of the HUC, said that Dean Ford, James Q. Wilson, professor of Government, Rogers G. Albritton, professor of Philosophy, and Hilary W. Putnam, professor of Philosophy, have agreed to speak. Stanley H. Hoffmann, professor of Government, and Samuel H. Beer, professor of Government, will also be invited, but had not been contacted by last night...