Word: appointment
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Indecision and self-doubt stifled positive action by the Student Council last night, but the group finally agreed to appoint a committee to investigate the continuation of a scholarship which was established by the last Council...
...Presidential Press Secretary James Hagerty. Everything fine? Jim wanted to know. Anne Wheaton said yes. "Then," said the astonished Mrs. Wheaton later, "he asked me if I had a chair handy." Hagerty had a piece of news: the President had decided (thanks to Hagerty's good word) to appoint her associate press secretary, the job recently left open by Murray Snyder, who went to the Pentagon as Assistant Defense Secretary for Public Affairs (TIME. March 4). To the delight of Mrs. Wheaton and her fellow Republican women, the President made the announcement to the conference an hour...
P.B.H. had urged Larry R. Johnson '57, Council president, that the association's permanent Drive Committee would enable it to run the solicitations more efficiently. P.B.H. vice-president Peter N. Stearns '57 emphasized last night that under this plan the Student Council would have full power to appoint and dismiss the drive chairman...
...program for everyone, moreover, was a serious drain on both the budget and the tutors' time. In 1936, tutorial became an optional activity for a department, with tutorial for all sophomores and for only those juniors and seniors of exceptional ability. By 1938, faculty discontent forced President Conant to appoint the "Committee of Eight" to investigate "some problems of personnel in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences." For the purpose of the individual tutorial system, the Committee's recommendations for a rigid system of academic advancement meant that there would be fewer tutors, and, in that sense, the grand beginnings...
...only situation in which the committee would recommend an interim appointment, he maintained, would be if the ten-man committee could not agree on a choice within the near future. The faculty member added that the appointment would have to be made early in the spring so that the newly-appointed coach could appoint his assistants, but felt that it would be difficult to agree on a suitable man before the March 4 Corporation meeting, when an appointment would ordinarily be approved...