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SERVING THE CAUSE Although Hanson frequently stated his intention to refer the documents to the full board for adoption as College policy, for some reason he delayed doing so. The only career process document which did gain both faculty and trustee sanction at this time was one dealing with dismissal of tenured faculty for cause, which the faculty approved in 1965 and the board in 1966. Proposed revisions of some of these documents did begin to come before the faculty as early as 1968. In each case they were given the closest scrutiny in a number of faculty meetings before they were approved. In 1984 and 1985 the faculty and board approved four extensively revised tenure and promotion documents, which for the first time separated policies (requiring future approval of faculty, president, and board) and procedures (requiring future approval of faculty and president). Many of the forty faculty members recruited during the Paul years became eligible for tenure as the College was just beginning to enunciate more rigorous expectations for completion of graduate work and engaging in scholarly activity, and as it was developing more refined and announced procedures for reaching tenure decisions. In the belief that it was in keeping with general College policy, those responsible for making tenure decisions chose to introduce the new policies and procedures gradually. Most of the persons the General hired who sought tenure received it. In the following years, as some sister institutions became concerned about their increasingly highly tenured faculty, and began imposing upper limits, President Hanson stated that there was no tenure quota at Gettysburg and that candidates would be judged on their qualifications as teachers and scholars. He regarded this policy as fair to the candidates and beneficial to the College, and he was not convinced that future developments would actually result in an excessively high percentage of tenured faculty at Gettysburg. As the percentage, which had been 44 in 1960, reached 76 in 1976-1977 and peaked at 82 in 1979- 1980, the inevitable debate began between those who argued that there was no necessary relationship between a high percentage of tenured faculty and institutional torpor and those who insisted that steps should be taken before the College ability regularly to recruit new faculty was further decreased. In a reversal of his previous position, President Hanson in 1975 had begun offering two- and three-year appointments (often called nontenure-track appointments) to some candidates, a move which proved to be unpopular, as did the faculty personnel committee's proposal for a decade-long tenure moratorium, whose effect would last until some of the faculty the General recruited had begun to retire. The faculty resoundingly defeated this proposal in 1979. The 81