Word: hoc
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...This is an ad hoc decision and will be effective this term only," Winslow R. Briggs '50, chairman of the Undergraduate Committee, said yesterday...
...practice, Harvard seems able to work well with the ROTC Units on an ad hoc basis and maintains ultimate power of approval or disapproval on course offerings and accreditation. Though the ROTC Units seem to have a great deal of freedom to work with Harvard on curricular matters, cooperation and a measure of freedom do not change the basic condition that Harvard has no assurance that its demands will always be met. It is our view that ultimately the ROTC Departments are the Defense Department, rather than true Harvard Academic or Administrative Departments...
Last Thursday the Yale faculty voted to deny academic credit to ROTC courses. In addition, the faculty report states that the ROTC faculty at Yale will lose the "academic authority usually associated with a professorship." The faculty passed resolution that the president of the university should appoint an ad hoc committee, representing all "interested groups" to continue studying ROTC's activities at Yale...
...statement, the Ad Hoc Committee once more presented the case for the creation of a whole new department at Harvard--a department of Afro-American studies. The statement avoided any allusion to Rosovsky, but the intent was clear: disturbed by rumors that Rosovsky committee was going to recommend some compromise--like an expansion of course offerings--the black students wanted to make a final plea for a unified Afro-American department...
...misunderstanding of the Rosovsky committee's purpose was an old one. When Ford named the members in April, he merely charged them with "investigating the place" of Afro-American studies in the Harvard curriculum. But members of the newly-formed Ad Hoc Committee said then that they had an informal agreement with Ford that the committee was going to lay the groundwork for an Afro-American department...