Word: hoc
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...years old, the acting platoon leader for the 2nd Ranger Battalion, D Company. We were charged with one of the most dangerous missions that day, and we had been training for it since April. After we landed on the beach of Pointe du Hoc, which was between Omaha and Utah beaches, we were supposed to climb the 100-foot-high cliffs and take out the German cannons we believed were stationed there. The guns had a 10-to 12-mile range and were a danger to the forces landing at Utah and Omaha...
...Dean of Harvard College would represent the Faculty with respect to the Houses and all aspects of undergraduate life. In addition, the Dean of Harvard College might work more closely with the Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences on other issues, such as faculty appointments and ad hoc committees, the Core Standing Committee, and the Educational Policy Committee.” (Please see further excerpts below right...
...club’s former president, accurately described the Pudding as “the first purely social organization to be accepted as a student group.” And that’s what it is: a once-secret society premised on ad hoc partying. Such organizations have a right to exist outside the auspices of Harvard’s administration, but there is no place for them as official campus groups, enjoying space in Harvard-owned buildings...
...We’re a little peculiar in that this is driven by ad hoc student projects,” he says...
Music Professor Kay K. Shelemay said that the ad hoc status no longer did justice to the program...