Word: bucked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Leaves of absence for assistant professors will be granted next fall for the first time since the war, Provost Buck announced yesterday. Greater freedom for professional advancement on the part of assistant professors through reading, writing, research, or travel is the purpose of the half-year sabbaticals, he stated...
...Young men are now burdened down with too much routine teaching," Buck commented. "A man's reputation depends partly on his publication of material." Harvard has traditionally expected young professors to publish at least one book before giving them a permanent appointment...
...half-year sabbatical, with full salary. Leaves will occur during the second or third year of an assistant professor's term. In no cases will leaves be granted in the final fifth year of a tenure, and only in exceptional cases in the first and fourth years, Buck explained...
Lamont Library marks a return to the belief that education is based on unrestricted access to all that humanity has thought and experienced, Provost Buck told the audience at the dedication of the new library yesterday afternoon. "Our worser selves have had little confidence in the capacity of man to solve his fate, have treated our students as though they were children, and so have sought to substitute for free inquiry, discipline and restraint," he said...
...Buck joined President Conant, Keyes DeWitt Metcalf, University Librarian, Thomas S. Lamont, son of the late Thomas W. Lamont '92, and William D. Weeks '49, president of the Student Council in speaking at the dedication ceremonies in the Library's Forum Room today...