Word: transferals
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...about it. Many colleges had created what were, in fact, subcommittees of their faculties to enforce and make exceptions to rules. The Administrative Board did not assume its present distinctive form until 1952. In that year, as a result of something called the Bender Report, it was decided to transfer the responsibility for "deaning" undergraduates from a group of Assistant Deans of the College working in University Hall (often known as baby deans) to the Senior Tutors in the Houses and to make the Senior Tutors members of the Board. That act transformed the Board because the Senior Tutors, along...
...patience of Congress with the Administration's seemingly stringless military aid to the government of El Salvador clearly is running out. In a confused legislative situation, three separate committees last week moved to amend President Reagan's decision to transfer to El Salvador $60 million in military funds previously appropriated for Morocco. Said one Administration official wryly: "We have never had a four-handed policymaking game before...
Though committee actions are not strictly binding, they have a political force that cannot readily be ignored. If the Administration rejects the committee's demands on the transfer of funds, it risks outright rejection of other requests for military aid to El Salvador that must go through the normal legislative process...
Compared with what happened on the Hill next, the Administration had got off easily. In the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, members decided by "consensus" rather than a recorded vote to let Reagan transfer only $30 million to El Salvador. In addition, they called for "unconditional negotiations" in El Salvador and asked the Administration to urge the Salvadoran government to speed prosecution of those suspected of killing the American women...
...might wonder why a teacher of literature should worry about being unable to regulate moral actions, when no such self-recrimination haunts the teacher of, say, physics. But a work of Literature, unlike a physical law, has moral content to begin with, and the teacher's inability to transfer that content may seem either a failure of his own understanding or a basic flaw of the craft. What concerns such a teacher, the scrupulous teacher, is that he is dealing solely with words-the words of others, which are not his property, and his own words in their behalf...