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...face of it, the Stadium is an utter economic waste of resources, being in profitable and honest use only five to six days a year for football (exclusive of some Thanksgiving Day use by schoolboy football), a few track-meets; and, of course, nowadays, "ad hoe" use for participatory democracy, and other quasipolitical activity. And, Oh, yes-for lease to Miss Joan Baez (I presume and indeed hope that it was, leased, and that some money went to Harvard), for purposes were surely commercial...

Author: By M. D. and Maurice M. Osborne jr., S | Title: Alumnus Criticizes Pusey for His Stadium Stand | 1/23/1970 | See Source »

CONGO REPUBLIC The Hammer and the Hoe Not even Guinea, for all its flirtations with Moscow and Peking, had gone so far. In Brazzaville last week, the new banner of the Congo Republic was fluttering atop flagpoles, boasting a crossed hammer and hoe (the sickle, it seems, is not used in equatorial Africa) surmounted by the traditional gold star. The country was rechristened the People's Republic of the Congo-not to be confused with the former Belgian Congo, now known as the Democratic Republic of the Congo. National assembly functions were taken over by a central committee consisting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Congo Republic: The Hammer and the Hoe | 1/19/1970 | See Source »

instead of the normal selection procedure-in which an ad hoe committee reviews nominations-the column says that "black student militants had the deciding voice" in choosing Guinier...

Author: By James M. Fallows, | Title: Columnists Say Harvard Has Given In To Terror | 10/30/1969 | See Source »

...press conference yesterday, Pusey flatly denied the first charge-that Guinier was chosen in an abnormal way. The Faculty did vote last Spring to seat students on a committee looking for a chairman for the department. But the vote retained the normal system of review by an ad hoe committee, and Guinier was approved under that system...

Author: By James M. Fallows, | Title: Columnists Say Harvard Has Given In To Terror | 10/30/1969 | See Source »

Nader suggested that the graduating classes of law schools and colleges pledge a percentage of their income to support full-time investigators in public interest problems around the country. An ad hoe committee will meet at Harvard Law School next week to organize a percent tithe pledge for this year's graduating class...

Author: By Ruth Glushien, | Title: Nader Discusses Role of Students As Investigators | 9/24/1969 | See Source »

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