Word: bucked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Harvard, like the world at large," Buck continued, "has been a battle-ground between good and evil. Our better selves have cherished freedom ... and have sought its advancement...
Several times in the history of Harvard there have been frontal and indirect attacks on freedom of thought, Buck noted. He cited as examples the restriction of anti-slavery discussion a century ago and more recently the attempt to prohibit Dunster House students from reading Norman Douglas' "South Wind...
McKenzie W. Buck has finished experiments with 91 midwestern children between the ages of five and eight and found that the "R" sound was the last to become a normal part of their speech...
...Buck speculates that Harvard men and New Englanders in general, who have associated mainly with each other for centuries, may have become unwittingly sloppy about their speech...
Commenting on Buck's findings, Frederick C. Packard '20, assistant professor of Public Speaking, stated that the Harvard accent, far from omitting the "R," puts it just right. The "ah" sound in Hahvuhd is actually the best combination of the "A" and "R" sounds...