Word: bucked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Provost Buck yesterday set aside $3,675 to pay the tuition of seven Displaced Persons entering the College next year...
...much more to it than that: Bill Boyle would parcel out, or pass on, the jobs in the lush fields above civil service and below Cabinet rank (among them: judgeships, U.S. district attorneys, key postmasterships). Eventually he would probably take title officially from McGrath. His first goal: to buck for a big registration in 1950, to avoid the off-year election slump that usually hits the party in power. Says Boyle: "A big registration never worries me. I know there are more Democrats than there are Republicans...
LaCroix's statement that, "Provost Buck is willing to waive tuition for seven displaced persons to enter the college next fall," is, at the moment, nothing more than wishful thinking. The International Activities Committee hopes that the college will grant financial assistance to displaced persons in their first year in the United States. This would be done from special funds, however, and there would certainly be no "waiver." Provost Buck has not yet issued a policy decision on this matter, and when he does it, it will come from his office...
...intention to withhold facts from the CRIMSON, but merely to present them at a time when, in conjunction with Provost Buck's statement of policy, they would give the undergraduate body the clearest picture of what is going on. . . Rov M. Goodman '51, Chairman, International Activities Committee Harvard Student Council
...Provest Buck is willing to waive tuition for seven displaced persons to enter the College next fall, Edward F. LaCroix '48, a National Student Association committee member, reported last night...