Word: hoc
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Another mechanical feature of the appointment system--the ad hoc committee--is likewise in the hands of the President and Dean. They appoint special committee of qualified men, often from outside the academic life, to come to Cambridge for a day to hear witnesses tell why a certain instructor should be added to the permanent Faculty...
After Monro had suggested the idea to the College Boards, and ad hoc committee was appointed to discuss the clearing house. The committee met in Cambridge, and its recommendations were passed in the form of the $50,000 grant...
...also walked, seeing more of New York in a few weeks than many New Yorkers see in a lifetime. America Day by Day is the diary of her trip, a mixed salad of surface impressions, often crisp and pungent, more often hand-me-down gossip and soggy ad hoc generalizations, mostly unripe...
When the Jenner Committee came to Boston last spring, the Student Council created an ad hoc committee of undergraduate organizations to help determine student opinion of the investigations. Because the Council hesitated to take the responsibility of speaking for the College, it felt that such a committee would be sufficiently representative of undergraduate opinion to lend power to its statements. And although instrumental in the committee's creation, the Council relegated itself to a position equal to that of the other member organizations...
...cancer-causing agent was known in tobacco smoke, so medical researchers were careful not to fall into the error of arguing post hoc, ergo propter hoc. For a long time, their scientific caution would let them say no more than that there must be a "correlation" between heavy, continued cigarette smoking and lung cancer...