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...hoc committee recommended to Dean Ford yesterday a compromise plan that would allow Dunster House residents to keep their dining hall until April 1 of next year...
...hoc committee passed on to Ford a plan already approved by Dunster House residents last week...
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...
Dunlop's Committee recommends few changes in the mechanics of recruitment. It endorses the use of ad hoc committees (groups of scholars outside the department who are called in to approve or reject a department's candidate for a tenured position). But the report deplores what it bluntly calls "the glacial tempo" at which these committees operate. In the interim between first contacts and final ad hoc committee approval a man is often offered huge salary increases by his present employer and turns down Harvard. The report documents in exhaustive detail the complicated recommendations for multiple appointments or departmental restructuring...
...skill as a teacher now has virtually nothing to do with his chances of getting a tenured position at Harvard. The ad hoc committee system has considerable advantages of impartiality and expertise, but as one veteran of six or seven of these said last week, it makes a man's appointment hinge on what he has written and on what his colleagues say about him, since the committees usually have no information on his competence as a teacher, especially if he is at an outside university...