Word: binding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...have not undertaken to review in detail the committee structure of the Faculty. We hope that the Faculty Council will do so. Nor have we attempted any detailed blueprint of its future organization or operations. We would not wish to bind its hand too rigidly, and we believe it important that the Council be left as free as possible to develop its own substructure and procedures, including additional provisions for student participation in its deliberations beyond those specified in Part IV of this report. We do, however, in the next section. recommend the establishment of a Docket Committee...
This argument sets up a straw man and knocks it down. No one has proposed "speaking for" anyone else. No one has claimed the right to "bind" any dissenting member of the Harvard community, faculty or otherwise (unless it be the Harvard Corporation, which has meted out what many consider political punishment for some of last year's events). Students, for example, have not been "bound" or "spoken for" by the numerous polls over the past few years on issues such as the war or the U.S. Presidency. There is, indeed, a widespread sense that the U.S. government itself...
...unfairly bind a minority of the Faculty to the views of the majority...
...statement's contention that a Faculty vote would bind all members "is a non-sequitur." Ptashine said that his resolution uses the standard phrase, "it is the sense of the Faculty." and does not purport to speak for the entire Faculty or those who vote against the motion...
...longer at ease with each other. Party organizations find it difficult to organize. Old loyalties fail to bind. Such volatility breeds accidental candidates, and Procaccino is a creature of circumstance. Lindsay's failures and the ugly mood of the city, far more than anything in Procaccino's past record or present offerings, account for the Democrat's promising prospects...