Word: seemly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...members seem to agree with our steering committee," says Robert L. Wolff, professor of History and chairman of the conservative group, "more often than their members seem to agree with their steering committee...
...other major issue likely to divide the two caucuses concerns Faculty self-government. Liberal Faculty seem determined to make the Faculty a self-governing body and to minimize the role of the administration in Faculty affairs. They consequently favor the election of members to any new governing group, such as the Faculty Council which the Fainsod Report is expected to propose...
...broad concern and variety of views on these issues requires that the committees which examine them be composed of a wider membership than the standing committees. The Faculty's two recent experiments in new types of committees-The Student-Faculty Advisory Council and the Committee of Fifteen-may not seem encouraging to some, but neither of these committees is comparable to those here proposed. SEAC has always suffered from the lack of a defined mandate: its mission has been to consider any issue put before it, rather than examining one area in detail. In effect, SFAC has scattered its efforts...
...Faculty itself can, no doubt, determine other outstanding issues which should be examined at the present moment. Nor does the selection of issues presume that changes in present policies are required on each issue; it only indicates that these issues are those under the jurisdiction of the Faculty which seem to be of most concern at present. The existence of such a series of ad hoc investigative committees should not become an excuse for other groups to relax their consideration of these problems. Rather, they should step up, using the committees as one focus of their efforts...
...counsel Mr. Bruck to have a little faith. The economic determinists have been trying to drive history for a century now without having made the lot of man any lighter. Perhaps we ought to give another sort of ideologue a chance. These ideologues call themselves social scientists. They seem so far bumbling but, on the whole, responsible. Maybe they can be of some help...