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...case for legislation ad hoc...
...formula to decentralize the Deans Office and emphasize the House system was the topic discussed at last night's Student Council meeting. An ad-hoc committee of Robert H. Cole '52, David L. Stark '53, and Paul D. Sheets '54 presented proposals which will be revised and voted upon Monday night...
...steam tunnels. Knowing his duty, he chased them--all the way from Adams House to Lowell. When he discovered that they were only members of the Harvard Outing Club on a guided tour, he began to leave. But he had gone too far and promptly lost his way. The HOC had to lead...
...Pentagonian always lives "by the book." Confronted with a problem, his instinct is to find a precedent (nothing makes a Pentagonian feel snugger than to curl up inside a precedent), to make a survey, to appoint an "ad hoc" committee, or, if possible, to hand the problem to someone else. When "the flap is on," a process which can be set off by as little as a Congressman's letter or a sudden demand from a Chief of Staff, he responds by producing a protective cloud of paper in which he can safely disappear in a smother of initials...
Contrary to the usual ad hoc committee procedure, under which groups named to suggest permanent appointees meet only once or twice and then quickly disband, the athletic director committee held over a dozen formal and informal meetings before it decided upon its list of possible successors to William J. Bingham...