Word: bucked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Some suspicion on Dean Buck's comment that this class "contains more potential ability" than any other, was shed by the fact that it took fully one-half hour for the fleetest of the Freshmen, Herbert M. Cohen, of Lawrence, to thread his way through the rigmarole of enrollment and earn his free copy of the CRIMSON. Apologies for the generally leisurely progress of the Yardlings were made by the registrars, who nevertheless admitted that the procedure was somewhat more complicated than usual...
...More is expected of you than of any class that has ever entered Harvard College," Dean Paul H. Buck of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences said. "There can be no wastage, no misspent effort, and no luxuries. We have work to do and we must do it both well and quickly. More than our own individual destinies are involved...
...manila envelopes, Freshmen will hear the University's war-geared program explained and the customary fatherly advice presented this evening at 7:30 o'clock in the Lowell House dining room. In the absence of President Conant, who is engaged in war work at Washington, Dean Paul H. Buck of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences will welcome Harvard's newest undergraduates...
Commenting on the record-breaking number of Yardlings, Dean Buck stated: "The Class of 1946 is not only greater numerically than any of its predecessors, but contains more potential ability, as indicated by the admission data and the fine record which that part of the Freshman class which registered in June made during the summer term. The members of the class were chosen from 2258 approved final applicants, 665 more candidates than there were a year...
...were undergraduates. He ended all thoughts of a diploma before an induction notice except for those whose graduation is imminent. But the fog has not lifted--it has only diminished. The path and the destination are clear, the relative worth to the nation of a college graduate and a buck private are set, but the details are yet to emerge...