Word: hoc
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Harvard's system for making permanent Faculty appointments provides for an evaluation of prospective faculty members by an "ad hoc" committee, selected by the Dean an composed of the Dean, the President, the chairman of the recommending Department, a Harvard scholar from a related field, and two or three scholars in that field from another insinuation...
Careful scrutiny of these recommendations is an important way in which the Dean directly affects the calibre of the Faculty. Ford generally remains in the background at the ad hoc committee meetings, but he appoints the committee in the first place and therefore wields considerable influence. He must assure that there is an independent judgment not colored by departmental politics, professional jealously, or ideological differences...
...archival research; he has absorbed a mass of seventeenth and eighteenth century documents from Strasbourg. Paris, and Vienna in several dialects. Yet Ford, unlike other Faculty members, will not admit that scholarship is the only real criterion on which permanent appointments are based. He points out that ad hoc committees have rejected several departmental recommendations in the last couple of years specifically because the candidate had no demonstrable teaching ability...
...plans for the Class Day singing have been made by an ad hoc committee, headed by Henry R. Norr '68 and Douglas M. Myers '68. The group, with an open membership, has been meeting for the past four weeks to decide on a method of demonstrating opposition to the war by the Class...
Dunster residents had rejected two other suggestions tossed out by the ad hoc committee. One would have had temporary kitchen facilities established in the Dunster Junior Common Room and small dining room while remodeling began next January 1. The other would have had remodeling begin February 1, with students following the same eating arrangement now recommended to begin April 1 in the compromise plan...