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...principal objection to the measure was that the original announcement was made by the ad hoc Council Committee of Undergraduate Organizations on Academic Freedom, and not by the Council as a whole...
Last night's was the first meeting of the Student Council Committee of Undergraduate Organization on Academic Freedom, an ad hoc group set up last April by the Council to speak for undergraduates on issues arising from Congressional investigations of communism at Harvard...
...dozen groups compose the Harvard Student Council committee on Undergraduate Organizations on Academic Freedom, an ad hoc committee set up last spring by the Council to speak for undergraduates on questions concerning congressional investigations and academic freedom...
After Monro introduced the idea at a College Board symposium this spring the executives appointed an ad hoc committee to discuss the clearing house. That committee met in Cambridge and recommended further action to the Board's executives for today's meeting...
Specialization, or what Hutchins calls "the doctrine of the ad hoc," is another plague afflicting higher education. Courses are offered in everything from how to be a beautician to how to drive an automobile, while the bases of the oldtime classical education receive less and less attention. "The process of specialization has . . . turned out to be a process of inhibition ... In the United States, we have discovered that [a specialist] can be a man who learns less and less about less and less...