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...Department's recommendation goes to Dean Ford, who convenes an ad hoc committee, consisting of himself, President Pusey, two members of a related Harvard department, and three delegates from the History Departments of other universities, usually Columbia, Brandeis, or Tufts. With such a broad membership one of the committeemen frequently knows the candidate personally. The committee receives both written and oral testimony in an effort to determine if the nomination is in the area in which the department is most deficient and if the candidate is the best possible choice...
While both judgments are somewhat subjective, Ford feels that "the ad hoc committees have been a wonderful thing for Harvard because they keep the departments on their toes." The system avoids the parochialism implicit in a permanent faculty committee on tenure, such as exists at Yale, for it insures that departments cannot blindly perpetuate a single tradition of scholarship...
...response to the threat of loss of accreditation, BCH officers last January formed an ad hoc Committee which has recently released a report dealing with the specific problems outlined by the Commission...
...hoc Committee recommended a 9750,000 housecleaning the use of outside contractual help to catch up with the backlog of medical records, more clerks to keep abreast of current records, and the allocation, of extensive funds to correct the nursing shortage...
Laws embodying the Report's recommendations have not yet been drawn up. The Advisory Committee calls for the creation of an ad hoc committee to draft the legislation. If the ad hoc committee is formed immediately, it may be able to submit legislation to the General Court this session. And if a bill is enacted, there is every reason to believe that the evils of de facto legislation can be substantially lessened before the year...