Word: adding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Ad Board," as it is called by its members, is a multifunctional committee of the Faculty which hands out highest honors, interprets University regulations, approves leaves of absence, allows students to add or drop courses, and serves as the high court of the College...
...Administrative Board was not designed to appear to be a paragon of justice. It was built to work. Monro insists that the Ad Board should not be allowed to become an adversary process, but rather should remain a private review Board (as opposed to a public trial) which can consult confidential background material before reaching a decision...
...clash. But the problem nonetheless remains one of the most convicing arguments against the present system--shouldn't a student be allowed to defend himself when he thinks his Senior Tutor will distort his case? Last year Monro decided that in special cases where the student is convinced the Ad Board has the wrong information, a special subcommittee will be appointed to listen to the student's grievance. But in the last three years, Monro adds, no case has warranted a hearing. As it stands now, a student is asked to submit a written statement about his case...
...year, a student has asked if he could go to the different members of the Board to state his case. Although permission was granted, Dean Von Stade and a number of other Board members were annoyed at the student's presentation. Usually the only confrontation between student and the Ad Board comes through his Senior Tutor, or Dean Monro, who often asks a student to talk with him before the case is brought...
...seems to add a medieval touch to the spectrum of punishments. One student is reported to have been expunged for having beaten up a University janitor. Another was rubbed out when it was discovered that he had entered Harvard under a false name without ever having been accepted. An Ad Board recommendation for a student's expungement must be passed by a vote of the Faculty...