Word: bucked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...further examine the problems of high schools in General Education, a New York University School of Education conference today will feature an address by Dean Paul H. Buck, chairman of the Harvard Committee...
Representatives of the Albany State Teachers College, of the New York Museum of Natural History, and of high schools in Kaneas City, Los Angeles, Garden City, New York, and New Britain, Connecticut, will share the speakers' platform with Dean Buck. Professor Lyman B. Greybeal, of N.Y.U. will preside...
Harder on the individual student than the Harvard recommendations, the Yale program prescribes nine courses for all men, in contrast to the seven suggested by the Buck Committee. Of the nine, however, only three are specific courses and one a limited choice; the rest offer a broad selection within certain fields. Thus the student finds that under either plan he is forced to take four courses definitely prescribed by the college...
...words "approved by . . ." comes the crux of the entire plan submitted by Dean Buck's committee. Whereas the Yale program is obviously a hodge-podge of requirements which have been formulated by compromise between long-standing interests, the Buck Committee demonstrates that there are certain values available to the student from General Education--and the Committee says Harvard should supply that education for all students...
...interesting point in the Yale plan is the number of courses required for a degree--20, in contrast to Harvard's 16. Along with this goes the elimination of any artificial distinction between the A.B. and B.S. degrees, now in effect at Harvard (though ignored by Dean Buck's Committee) because of the perhaps out dated requirement of advanced Latin or Greek for the A.B. degree...