Word: bucked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...people are willing to spread their philanthrophy to the support of an undenominational school, Provost Buck has pointed out, when they can just as easily donate to a seminary of their own faith. For that reason, 130 years of Divinity School finance have been years of relatively meagre accessions...
...station will go on the air at 2:30 o'clock to carry addresses by Provost Buck, E. M. Forster, and Roger Sessions: At the close of the ceremonies, WHCN will leave the air and will return at 6:15 o'clock with the Walden String Quartet's concert of chamber music from Sanders Theatre...
Thursday, 2:30 o'clock-Meeting in Sanders Theatre; chairman, Archibaid T. Davison. Address by Paul H. Buck. Provost, "The Raison d'Etre Criticism in the Arts"-E. M. Forster; "The Scope of Music Criticism"-Roger Sessions. 6:15 o'clock-Concert of Chamber Music in Sanders Theatre by the Walden String Quartet. New Compositions: Bohuslav Martian, String Quartet; Op. 6; Walter Piston, String Quartet, Op. 3; Arnold Schonenberg, String Trio...
Blow Hot. In an industry noted for its highflying, Buck Rogerish schemers, and its sometimes low-grade economics, Pat Patterson, at 47, is an old killjoy. He is forever crying "Now, wait a minute," when someone wants to jump off the barn with an umbrella for a parachute. He is the No. 1 conservative of the airlines, and proud of the title. He still gets a thrill as an airliner roars up off the runway. But the thrill is enhanced if he knows that all the seats are filled...
...underway for the installation of sound-absorbent material in a dining hall crowded as it has never been and continuously filled with the clatter of knives and forks. Such an improvement--a genuine shot in the arm for "education over the breakfast table"--neatly meets the spirit of Provost Buck's gesture. Similarly in Leverett the projected overhauling of the Library lighting system may well stimulate use of House facilities for that study and intellectual camaraderie which the House Plan was founded to advance. What the masters must take care to avert is short-sighted renovation which does not make...