Word: bucked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Peak enrollment has already been reached, for the College at least, according to advance term estimates released yesterday by Paul H. Buck, Provost of the University...
...Mexico City's busiest men. Besides studying Chinese, he is working on an ambitious work on pre-Columbian art in the Western Hemisphere (to be finished by 1948), and teaching Indian arts at the National School of Anthropology. He is preparing an illustrated edition of Pearl Buck's translation from the Chinese, All Men Are Brothers; he has sketched out two gigantic mural maps of Mexico for the lobby of the big new Hotel del Prado. Yet he has time for some painting of his own, and time also to be one of the city's most...
Varsity Club members gathered more than 200 strong last night in their annual dinner meeting at the clubhouse to hear Provost Buck and Veterans' Counsellor Wilbur J. Bender '27 discuss the role of athletics in twentieth century education and in particular in Harvard College...
After brief opening remarks by Richard C. Floyd '11, president of the Club, Huntington Reed "Tack" Hardwick, and Dick Harlow, who described this year's eleven, Buck launched into a seven-point explanation of the place which football should fill in college education today...
Decrying both professionalism and complete de-emphasis such as that practiced by the university of Chicago, he called for a middle road which recognized the value of athletics and yet did not neglect other educational values. Buck emphasized in his speech that education did not consist essentially of cramming knowledge into students, and that the real educational purpose of creating character could be assisted by extracurricular as well as curricular activities...