Word: bucked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Provost Buck, in commenting upon the recent action, stated: "We have granted permission for the formation of Harvard Youth for Democracy under this University's traditional policy of a free exchange of opinion within the student body as well as its Faculty...
...Provost Buck, in an announcement made earlier this year after Yale College tuition was boosted to $600 per year, stated that tuition for undergraduates would remain at the pre-war $400 figure in 1947-48, and that every effort was being made to raise funds by other means than an additional financial burden on the College student...
...Provost Buck and Dean Hanford will deliver off-the-record talks to assembled Adams House men tonight when the Gold Coast convenes for its annual farewell dinner at 6 o'clock...
Dudley Hall, center for the College's 380 commuters, boasts a library including Webster's Dictionary, a few tired periodicals, and a copy of "Campaigning for Christ"--a collection which adds up to about two pages per member. Commuters are forced to buck Widener's waiting lit, its frightful lighting system and depressing atmosphere in order to read many widely used volumes which residents can peruse in the comfort of House libraries. If commuters wish to check books out overnight they are put to the further inconvenience of remaining at Widener or Boylston until nine o'clock...
University officials here have assured continuance of present rates for at least another year. "I have no present intention of making any recommendations to the Corporation that would effect a change in the College for the academic year 1947-48," Provost Buck announced at the start of this term...