Word: hoc
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...theory, this is not supposed to happen. The Ad Hoc Committee which recommends who should become a professor is composed of leading men in the field from Harvard and elsewhere. The Committee, supposedly, looks for and considers qualified men from the entire nation. But in practice, the Ad Hoc Committee frequently fails to limit a department's tendency to become ingrown with like minded and similarly trained men. Departments oft-times make it clear to the Committee which man they want for the job. A "fair haired" young man is groomed for a particular professorship so that the Ad Hoc...
Harvard should take advantage of all available talent, and should actively seek new blood. The departments, Ad Hoc Committees, and the Corporation should look to the rest of the nation more frequently when seeking professors. Fresh air is always welcome in the lecture hall, and from time to time even in Widener...
EVEN before Sputnik, Soviet scientists were freely predicting successful space flights to the moon by the early 1960s. Since the launching of their satellite, the timetable has been confidently pushed up. HOC IE CIIVTHHKA−I VHA (After Sputnik, the moon), the Russians proclaim, hinting that an unmanned rocket try at the moon might be planned from a Soviet launching site in the near future, perhaps to coincide with the celebration of the 40th anniversary of the Bolshevik Revolution on Nov.7...
...report recommended that greater attention be paid to the advisory ad hoc (comprised of men in and out of the field, from Harvard and elsewhere) committee's report on a nominee for a permanent appointment. But the original nomination still rests with the departments, with the ad hoc committee advising the President on his decision at a later date. The President and after him, the governing boards, should be encouraged to prod the departments into looking around for new blood even if it makes their own boil...
...Reed, the conference had first planned to have the need analysis plan administered by the College Scholarship Service, but found it necessary to set up its own office for the purpose, patterned after the C.S.S. The standards and procedures of the committee were set up by an ad hoc committee consisting of scholarship officers from three Big Ten schools which used the Financial Need system, and Monro...