Word: fords
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Some men are just naturally good committee members--I mean that in a serious sense," Ford says. These men tend to be on many committees, more than they themselves may prefer...
...Ford says he prefers special committees to be fairly small, that is, between seven and nine members. The largest committee now going has "something like 15" members, he says. Large committees have a difficulty rounding up their members for meetings...
...Ford feels that one reason for the Doty report's problems in the Faculty was that "just about everyone in the community thinks he knows what Gen Ed is." It's a "gut issue" around here, he says...
...rather lucky," Ford says of Harvard's experience, constantly increasing, with committees. Other schools have had not great success with them, he says. He credits Harvard's long tradition of Faculty control. That tradition is so strong here, that Faculty members--if not deliriously happy to be tapped for committee membership, do at least recognize it as a part of their functions here, and perform, when asked, with dedication and competence...
...dropped the financially tricky rider of a free fifth course (part of their original scheme) and were given a political boost by Yale's highly publicized "pass-fail" plan late in the fall. More important was a lot of routine political legwork--testimony before the CEP, interviews with Dean Ford and other CEP members. By the time the proposal to allow every student to take one of his courses ungraded came to a vote in November there was no argument. The CEP approved it unanimously and after a few weeks to arrange implementation, the Faculty passed...