Word: bucked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This evening, at 7.30 o'clock, a reception for all new students in the Kirkland Common Room will be addressed by Paul H. Buck, Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Willard L. Sperry, Dean of the Divinity School, and Richard M. Gummere, Chairman of the Committee on Admission. Delmar Leighton '17, Dean of Freshmen, Dr. Arlie V. Bock, Henry K. Oliver Professor of Hygiene, and Keyes D. Metcalf, Director of the University Library, will speak at the required meeting for new students in New Lecture Hall tomorrow morning...
General Huebner, who rose from a buck private, commanded the ist Infantry on the Normandy beaches. In Germany, he was known for his ability to get on with the Russians. They presented him with a tattered flag from Stalingrad. Czechoslovakia's President Benes also decorated...
...volume contains the report of a committee of twelve appointed more than two years ago, headed by Paul H. Buck, Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences. Advance copies have been distributed to the members of the faculties and Governing Boards. The fifth chapter deals with the problem of general education in Harvard College and the recommendations contained there in will be considered by the Faculty of Arts and Sciences next fall. Until the faculty has acted, it would be premature to discuss the proposed changes in any detail. Suffice at to say that they look toward the introduction...
...Reader Buck has overstated her case. For instance: McGill is the only Canadian university which bans Canadian Japanese, and indications are that the ban will be lifted; Toronto recently licensed a Nisei beauty-parlor operator; all Ontario cities but Toronto are at present open to Canadian Japanese...
...Philosopher-Emeritus William Ernest Hocking, are spiritual. Without its spiritual guid ance, "God knows what religion we would have - possibly Druidism, if we have a Celtic rill in our veins. . . . Whatever forms of religion are alive among us we owe to Asia." "We of the West," declares Novelist Pearl Buck, "need to have happiness restored to us, not through a new spiritual rebirth, but through a plain and simple return [to the Eastern conviction that] what makes a human being happy is to feel himself wanted and understood and appreciated. The fabulous courtesy of the East is not a ritual...