Word: forded
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...special committees, however, that have dominated Harvard news for the past two years in particular. They too are more numerous than ever before, according to Ford...
Fred L. Glimp, Dean of the College, handled this immediate situation with the help of some students, senior tutors, House Masters, and junior faculty. (President Pusey and Franklin Ford, Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, happened to be out of town that day, but upon learning of the sit in neither man attempted to take control of the situation away from the hands of the amiable, patient college deans and their House helpers.) Glimp rejected offers to bring in Cambridge police, tear gas, and other forms of mechanical coercion. He felt the use of police would only inflame...
...recommending probation for 74 Dow demonstrators but severance for no one, the Administrative Board meted out a sharp warning rather than real punishment. As Dean Ford said at the time, "The imprisonment itself was reprehensible; but there are a number of mitigating circumstances for the demonstrators, and so I would like to see the most lenient possible action that will serve as an effective deterrent against this sort of thing in the future." The Board's decision passed the Faculty by a 5-1 margin and proved to be a practical and politic decision. It balanced leniency with a reaffirmation...
...number of standing committees generally has increased in recent years, according to Dean Ford, mainly because more groups of Faculty members have been coming forward with ideas for new instructional programs that cross the lines of existing Harvard departments. Folklore and Mythology is the latest example...
Standing committees "rejuvenate" themselves each year, as Dean Ford puts it, by dropping wearier members and signing on new ones. Occasionally, a committee outlives its usefulness and the Faculty, on Ford's recommendation, votes to dissolve...