Word: fifteens
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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vote after a short debate. Alan Heimert '49, spokesman for the Committee of Fifteen, said the plan had been developed after informal consultation with Faculty members because Heimert's group had only temporary authority from the governing boards...
Another Committee of Fifteen members, Gerald Holton, professor of Physics, said it was "just a necessity to spin off this task from the over-loaded committee of Fifteen...
...made the most general and most applauded statement. He said he felt overwhelmed by the sudden proliferation of committees, and especially by the way the Faculty's representatives were being chosen. Instead of the current selection system-in which the representatives are chosen by and from the Committee of Fifteen-Wylie said he would prefer to have the Faculty directly elect its representatives...
Though the immediate issue was the extent of the Committee of Fifteen's mandate-President Pusey and Dean Ford defining it widely, while Wylie and other Faculty members claiming it was more narrow-the underlying question was whether the Administration was using the Committee as part of a holding action against Faculty demands for more direct power...
Alan Heimert '49, Master of Eliot House and the Committee's spokesman, even made a joke about how some Faculty members no longer saw a distinction between the Administration and the Committee of Fifteen...