Word: appointment
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...expressed "its approval of the principle and program of General Education in Harvard College as recommended in Sections 4, 5 and 6 of Chapter V of the Report of the University Committee on the Objectives of a General Education in a Free Society." The vote requested the President to appoint a Committee on General Education and authorized that Committee to offer courses in General Education on an experimental basis beginning in September 1946. The vote also imposed upon the Committee responsibility for recommending to the Faculty such changes as may be "necessary to effect the transition to the vote...
...perhaps the most far-reaching liberalization of House rules since the late George Norris and a band of fellow insurgents clipped the autocratic power of old Speaker Joe Cannon, 39 years ago. "Uncle Joe" Cannon had wielded his power through the Speaker's right to appoint all committees. Norris changed all that, but he hadn't succeeded in cleaning out all the old glory holes where a minority could defeat the will of a majority. Last week's showdown went even further toward outting authority where it belonged-in the majority of the House...
Metcalf asked the Council to appoint a committee that could help him decide several procedural matters. Lamont has a small auditorium seating 150, the Forum Room, which will be available for certain types of meetings. But Metcalf has not decided what rules should apply to the auditorium so that there will be no excess noise to those working in the Reading Room. Such rules will be worked out by the committee...
...must disappear." So must most sports news. So must big display ads, a hangover from prewar days "when capitalists tried to gain the favor of the newspapers." Papers should expand their editorial boards to check and recheck "each fact, each sentence, each word, before it is printed." Who would appoint the checkers seemed to go without saying...
...suggestion by Dean Bender that the Council appoint "acting student policemen" to help keep order at the Yale game rally also came up for discussion at the meeting. The Council turned the plan down, feeling that an undergraduate police force would be ineffective, and that such appointments were out of the Council's domain...