Word: parliamentarianism
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...first council meeting of the year, former council parliamentarian Michael J. Passante '99 and three-year council veteran John J. Appelbaum '97 were elected the new secretary and treasurer, respectively...
...without a huge tax increase. And who would bear the brunt of that? The very students who today read The Crimson. Maybe the Crimson editorial writers should look at how much more they'll pay in taxes before writing their next ill-founded liberal apologia. --William M. Jay '98 Parliamentarian, Harvard Republican Club
Meanwhile, council members remain largely ignorant of Faculty meeting procedures, which are governed by a rule book and advised by a parliamentarian. Council representatives have violated these rules and ignored protocol, sometimes not even dressing properly for the meetings...
...challenged the ruling of the chair and asked for an opinion from the executive secretary of the school committee, Claire Rodley, who often advises the committee as parliamentarian on matters of procedure. Ms. Rodley agreed that the election of a vice chair should be brought before the committee as new business and be discussed at its next regularly-scheduled meeting. Whereupon Duehay, in a display of power politics, overruled the opinion of the parliamentarian and proceeded to take a vote on the motion...
Kennedy was a very undistinguished Senator. He was not much of a parliamentarian. His colleagues did not think very well of him. On the other hand, for all his failings as President, he was a very effective national spokesman. Johnson was a wonderfully effective majority leader, and as President, one of the things he did best was to get votes in Congress for the Civil Rights Act of 1964. A President without all those parliamentary skills would not have done that well. On the other hand, even Johnson would say that one of his weaknesses was as a national spokesman...