Word: bucked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Assistant Dean Robert B. Watson '37 said yesterday that Provost Buck's present ruling on the maximum number of students will have to be revised to accommodate at least an extra...
Perelman was a pioneer in the Broadway-to-Bucks-County rush which has filled the county's farmhouses with highbrow yeomen, including Moss Hart, Dorothy Parker and Pearl Buck. Acres and Pains, made up of 21 pieces originally published in magazines, deals sharply with such rural hazards as weekend guests, domestic animals, tractors and antiques ("Is anybody around here looking for a bargain in an Early Pennsylvania washstand? . . . Genuine pumpkin pine, with ball-and-claw feet, and a small smear of blood where I tripped over it last night in the dark"). Unlike some other city farmers, Perelman...
...Children don't go to school as long as they can endure it, but increasing numbers are interested in staying in high school and going to college," Provost Buck told an annual meeting of the New England School Development Council here last Wednesday evening...
Speaking at a Commander Hotel dinner on the second day of a three-day session, Buck told an audience of small town and city school superintendents that "Harvard's interest in public education is that of an institution interested in all education...
With a million and a half students now in the nation's high schools, Buck predicted that this figure would double in five years, and that with many of this number applying to college, the cleavage between the last year of high school and the first years of college must be effectively bridged...