Word: hoc
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Germain-des-Pres or Bloomsbury much of this might be accepted as existentialism. In the stubborn Quaker tradition that distrusts abstractions and relies on ad hoc "leadings," Maurer fights shy of any such cerebral pigeonholes. The very word idea, he holds, has the makings of snare and delusion: "The danger is that one will sit down in the world of ideas and go into a sleep so bewitchingly full of busy fantasy as to make anyone certain that he is clear-mindedly awake. The only chance of staying awake is to take with one into the world of ideas...
...addition to these special problems, the new president will deal with Permanent Faculty appointments and the admissions program. Retiring President Conant was a member of every ad hoc committee set up to choose a new associate professor. The admissions program, now in the hands of Dean Wilbur Bender '27, is partially a result of Conant's stress on a better geographic distribution of students...
Both Bowie and Friedrich attended the Strasbourg conferences and meetings of the Ad Hoc Assembly in Europe as consultants on the European Constitution...
Three of the five HOC members ventured into the cold, rough waters of stormy southern New England during the Spring vacation. But they got an unexpected and unseasonal swimming lesson when their hard-luck canoe labeled the "Wreck of the Housatonic" yielded the three, John M. Hey '56, Pauly T. to the rapids and smashed against a rock. The three, John M. Hey '56 Paul T. McElroy '53, and Benjamin L. Moltman '55, swam to safety girdled by life preservers...
...Council spent considerable time arguing a point which became virtually semantical. At heated issue was whether the proposed group be autonomous or a Council and hoc committee. Since in either case the Council would hold veto power, the question was one of prestige...