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...practical work in Harvard's clinical program was the unsuccessful ten-year search for a person with top clinical and research credentials to lead the program. McClelland, then a teacher in the program, conducted the frustrating search. Two of his choices were turned down by President Pusey's ad hoc committee on the appointment. Although both men were fine clinicians and good scholars, their research credentials did not satisfy the President's committee. Finally in 1966 McClelland and the committee agreed on Professor Norman Garmizey of the University of Minnesota. Garmizey accepted but then turned down the offer because...
...saint of a new style of far-left political activism. There are at least 800 left-wing organizations in Western Europe, operating outside-and often directly against-the established Communist and Socialist parties. Although these organizations vary widely in strength and strategy, they are clearly different from the ad hoc fronts that united the rebellious students who took to the barricades in Paris, Rome and Berlin in the spring of 1968. Essentially romantics, those earlier revolutionaries took their inspiration from Berkeley and Columbia. If they carried the red flag of Marxism, they seemed to pledge their allegiance to the black...
Some Jesuits found a haven in the realm of Catherine the Great of Russia, who esteemed Jesuit teaching and resolved to keep the society's schools alive. Others functioned as secular clergymen, joined other orders or created ad hoc communities with new names. When the order was restored by Pope Pius VII in 1814, there was a cadre of 600 Jesuits to begin again. But so wary were the Jesuits of earning new criticism that their first post-restoration general, Jan Roothaan, set a pattern for defensively prudent administration that few successors have risen above...
Further studies would involve feasibility in accordance with state emergency requirements, cost projections, and the response of UHS administrators, the UHS corporation and the ad hoc advisory committee representatives, faculty and employees, Postel said...
Several Harvard students are forming ad hoc committees to assess the effects of a predominantly white college on black students...