Word: hoc
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...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...
...here to rest, to rethink, to reformulate policies, to get fresh ideas, to meet stimulating minds, to go back enriched with a fresh burst of enthusiasm for what I do," he said. "I intend to study all the things I've been doing ad hoc without the proper tutoring the past 10 years...
...attack from black students many of them freshmen, has prompted the Ad Hoc Committee of Black Students to announce it will prepare a critique of the course. These are some of the charges that will be aired...
...undersigned wish to express our opinion that Professor Kilson's comments concerning the criticisms of Soc Sci 5 by black students were ill-advised. The Ad Hoc Committee of Black Students was duly elected and empowered to act as an advisory and investigative body for the black students of the college, by the black students. Since it has not yet made a definitive judgment of the course, any comments concerning its final recommendations are premature. Also, because faculty-student dialogue is essential to the development of any course, we feel that the use of personalized attacks can serve no useful...
...report also urges the university to organize temporary ad hoc courses on such questions as Viet Nam or Black Power, now found mainly in student-run "free colleges." Without spelling out how to arrive at the answers, it also suggests that the university should frankly tackle major student concerns: "the problems of sex, the nature of love and the applications of ethics, morality, politics and law to life." This might tax a professor's teaching ability, but it should also prove rewarding. The study recommends that professors' promotions be based on an evaluation of their teaching skill...