The Faculty overwhelmingly defeated Tuesday a resolution proposing that no member of the Harvard community should "have any connection with" the Defense Department-funded Cambridge Project.

Hilary W. Putnam, professor of Philosophy, introduced the resolution. "One shouldn't lick the boots of killers to get money for basic research." he said.

But Frank H, Westheimer, Morris Loeb Professor of Chemistry-one of two Faculty members to speak in opposition to the resolution-argued that Putnam's proposal came "perilously close to being political control of scholarly research."

Westheimer was one of the minority members of the Committee on Research Policy who voted last December against Harvard's allying itself institutionally with the Cambridge Project, Because of the opposition of some Faculty members to such an alliance, the project's joint Harvard-M. I. T. advisory committee last month withdrew its request to President Pusey that he appoint Harvard representatives to the project's policy board.

The advisory committee will meet this afternoon to discuss how-other than bypresidential appointment-the policy board can be organized. Edwin B. Newman, professor of Psychology and chairman of the Harvard participants in the project, said last night that project participants probably will elect the board from their own ranks.

More than 30 faculty-members from Harvard and about 20 from M. I. T. already are participating in the Cambridge Project.