Word: hoc
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...entry into it, critical of Gaullism's "insufficiency of dialogue." Giscard, once De Gaulle's Finance Minister, is youthful, bright and eloquent, with good long-term political prospects. Right now, the prospects of his party depend on the Gaullists. He is linked with them in an ad hoc Union for the Defense of the Republic that combines most Giscardists and the Gaullists on the same ticket...
...time, Hamilton was thinking primarily of Harvard's Association of African and Afro-American Students (Afro). But this Spring, immediately after the assassination of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., anguished and angry black students formed an Ad Hoc Committee of Black Students which quickly won major political concessions from the University...
After that service events moved more quickly than one would believe possible in a bureaucracy such as Harvard. Thomas S. Williamson '68, head of the ad hoc committee, and other black students met with admissions officials. Three weeks later, Dean of Admissions Dr. Chase N. Peterson '52 announced that Harvard will intensify its recruitment of black students, and will take black Harvard students along on recruiting trips...
...episode indicated how the Faculty, practically speaking, can function only as a ratifying body during such a crisis. As one Economics professor recently remarked: "We're all amateurs at parliamentary procedure; we have no caucuses, no ad hoc committees to handle crises, no system of feasible debate...
...have obtained a new field of concentration in Afro-American studies; the Harvard Policy Committee has successfully promoted a fourth-course pass-fail plan, an extension of the independent study program, a reduction in the language department, and an elimination of the junior general examinations in History; an ad hoc committee issued a report recommending weekday parietal extensions from 2 p.m. to midnight and had the plan approved...