Word: offing
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But Bruce Chalmers. Master of Winthrop House, said that the vote would help "bring rules into line with practice." Lance C. Buhl, Senior Tutor in Winthrop House, added that Radcliffe dormitories had used the same system "without any great confusion." On a voice vote, the amendment passed.
Earlier in the meeting, the Faculty heard a report from the committee appointed last month to devise a system of elections for the new Faculty Council.
The Council-approved by the Faculty in November-is one of the main features of the Fainsod recommendations. Its eighteen members will serve as a "combined dean's cabinet and steering committee of the Faculty," as well as sitting on three of the four new committees.
Kenneth J. Arrow, professor of Economics, said that the Council elections will be finished by the first week in February. Voting will be on a proportional representation system, with nomination forms going out this week and balloting running through the last two weeks of January.
The last item in the Fainsod Report-dealing with the Faculty's relation to the Governing Boards and to other faculties-came up briefly near the end of yesterday's meeting, but the Faculty adjourned without taking action. The motion will come up at the Faculty's next meeting on...