Word: motioning
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Faculty debate centered on a motion asking for approval "in principle" of the findings of the committee chaired by Robert L. Wolff, Coolidge Professor of History. Wolff's report, released last month, proposed 24 specific reforms, grouped under four main headings...
Wolff was followed by Robert G. McCloskey, Jonathan Trumbull Professor of American History and Government. McCloskey seconded Woff's motion for approval of the plan and said that the provisions for guaranteed financial aid would help raise grad student morale, as well as improve the University's position in competitive recruiting of students...
Talk about Harvard-Radcliffe merger came up when Dean Ford introduced a motion asking the Faculty to appoint committees to study various aspects of the merger. Mary I. Bunting, president of Radcliffe, had planned to introduce the proposal, but since she has no official standing with the Harvard Faculty, Ford had to take her place...
Long debate on other topics kept the Faculty from even discussing a docketed motion by Bruce Chalmers, Master of Winthrop House. Chalmers's motion said that the Faculty "holds that controversial questions...can and must be resolved by discussion," and that the Faculty "would regard as unacceptable any attempt to obstruct normal University activities and procedures...whatever the motives...
Furthermore, their spectrograms came when the planets were nearing conjunction (closest approach) and the earth was rapidly approaching Mars; this motion shortened the wave lengths of light being reflected from Mars. On the resulting spectrograms, the characteristic lines of Martian light were thus shifted away from the spectral lines produced by the earth's atmosphere, making them easily distinguishable...