Word: bucked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Tuition in the College and Graduate School of Arts and Sciences will mount to $525 a year starting next fall, Provost Buck announced last night...
Following is the text of Provost Buck's announcement on the tuition increase...
...last week a kind of panic swept through the Democratic ranks. Suddenly Democrats everywhere began to realize that Harry Truman looked like a sure loser in November. The Southern revolt was beginning to look like a rebellion. Even the most liberal of Southern Democrats could no longer buck the bitterness engendered in the South by the President's civil-rights program. Cried Senator Lister Hill of Alabama: "There cannot be Democratic Party unity with President Truman as [our] nominee." Senator Claude Pepper of Florida, no man to quail before Southern bigots, declared that the South should send unpledged delegates...
Liberal Union and AVC officials are submitting to Provost Buck today the results of a postcard poll sampling the effects of a tuition increase on undergraduates, despite the prediction of an assistant to the Provost that it will probably have less influence than "the hard facts of the University's financial picture...
...building was intended for Harvard use is certainly true, but it seems of no great importance. The Faculty of Arts and Sciences is certainly a Harvard institution, but its members and its Dean have worked intelligently with Radcliffe to provide a workable, useful relationship between the two schools. Dean Buck has not shied away from the responsibility inherent in helping Radcliffe with its own problems, and neither should the library's officers...