Word: fords
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...following are excerpts from Part IV of the report of the Wolff Committee, a group of five professors appointed by Dean Ford to study the problems of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. Part IV--about one-fifth of the 71 page report--is concerned with the morale of graduate students...
...Dean Ford said this week that the Committee on Research Policy of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences will meet later this month to decide whether to divide the Faculty's additional money among the various departments with NSF funds projects, or to keep the money in one "contingent fund" to be used for aid to projects particularly hand-pressed by spending cuts...
...Maybe student life doesn't provide what people are looking for," said Bill Carter, trying to explain why techies tech. Later, apologizing for sounding like Dean Ford, he mentioned the Classic Harvard experience--"growth and change." Maybe teching-it is a way to experience that change.AI Symonds, master light...
...Committee picked four students as "consultants." They are the presidents of HUC, HPC, SFAC, and GSA. Despite their titles, they will not participate as representatives of their organizations, according to Dean Ford. Probably the Dean has engaged on this illogical conduct, so uncharacteristic of him, in order to strip these students of whatever leverage they might ordinarily have as student body representatives. Also, if he recognized the HPC, a non-elected group, the Dean would expose himself to pressures to include other such groups of the Committee, like...
CLEARLY THE Fainsod Committee has been designed not to instigate student power but to co-opt it before the issue really threatened the Corporation's vital interests. The Committee's principal protagonists, Dean Ford, President Pusey, and Merle Fainsod are knowing in the ways of corporate bureaucracies. The first solicits money for them, the second administrates them, and the third studies them. Their hopes for the Committee, conscious or not, probably go something like this: the study will take three months, the reaction will take some time, and in the meantime, several "student leaders" will have developed a large stake...