Faculty In the Real World

Harvard faculty members are a prestigious and noteworthy group--and it came as no surprise this year when many of them made news in activities only tangentially related to the classroom or the library.

A good example is Daniel P. Moynihan, professor of Government, a man who has been on leave for four of the last six years. Last month Dean Rosovsky granted Moynihan an unprecedented third leave of absence from the Faculty so that Moynihan could accept President Ford's call to become U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations.

John T. Dunlop, Lamont University Professor and dean of the Faculty between 1970 and 1973, also required a second leave of absence--his first was in 1972, to chair President Nixon's Cost of Living Council--to accept Ford's offer to become Secretary of Labor.

Controversy surrounded two other Harvard faculty members with sizable Washington connections--Doris H. Kearns, associate professor of Government and a one-time adviser to President Johnson, and Martin H. Peretz, lecturer on Social Studies and owner of the New Republic magazine.

Kearns, recommended for tenure by the Government Department last fall, had her appointment--scheduled to begin next month--called into question last month when an article in The New York Times said that the manuscript which she submitted for tenure would not be published, and that the manuscript may have been substantially edited by an outside writer.

Peretz, who assumed active ownership of his magazine in the fall, saw his editor-in-chief--former publisher Gilbert A. Harrison--quit. Peretz said that the magazine had become a "one-man show" under Harrison, a charge that was directed against Peretz himself later this year.

Closer to Cambridge there were changes in personnel, most notably Seymour M. Lipset, professor of Government and Social Relations, who will probably be at Stanford next year; and Robert W. Fogel, author of a much-debated book on slavery, who was appointed to a joint professorship in Economics and History.