Quincy House Master Lee Gehrke also spoke on House Renewal, summarizing the changes made to Quincy’s Stone Hall and thanking his fellow house masters for their support.

The meeting’s official question period featured a number of faculty issues unrelated to docketed items.

“My question concerns the late [British Prime Minister] Margaret Thatcher who died last April. Will you join me in lamenting and deploring that Harvard never honored her with an honorary degree or in any other way?” said Government Professor Harvey C. Mansfield ’53, directing his question at University President Drew G. Faust.

Mansfield suggested that Thatcher was not awarded an honorary degree because she was a conservative and lamented that Harvard’s Commencement had turned into “a parade of liberals.” Faust responded by encouraging Mansfield to submit nominations to the Committee on Honorary Degrees.

Professor of Art and Architecture Jeffrey F. Hamburger raised concerns about a recent report in the Boston Globe stating that the Experiment Fund, a group of venture capitalists who advise and recruit students, has been allowed to use office space in Maxwell Dworkin. “To what extent is this institution willing to pit investment versus inquiry and thereby corrupt and degrade the traditional ideas of a liberal arts education to worship at the altar of Mammon?” he said.

Near the end of the meeting, English professor Jorie Graham took to the microphone to encourage the University to establish more professorships in the field of creative writing.

Two updates slated for the meeting—related to the relocation of SEAS to Allston and the Harvard Museums of Science and Culture—were not discussed on Tuesday due to time constraints and were instead referred by the Docket Committee to the next Faculty Meeting, which is scheduled for Nov. 5.

—Staff writer Nicholas P. Fandos contributed to the reporting of this story.

—Staff writer Matthew Q. Clarida can be reached at matthewclarida@thecrimson.com. Follow him on Twitter @MattClarida.