Word: bucked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...fall and spring terms next year will be a crisis," Dean Buck said, indicating that the largest enrollment in the University's history would be met with the scheduling of more afternoon classes, and an increase in the size of classes together with doubling up in the rooms of the Houses...
...case pressure on already taxed facilities here this summer, Radcliffe students, with almost no exception, will be officially discouraged from planning to attend the 12-week summer term, Dean Buck said, and no admissions would be granted summer-schooling teachers. Applications for temporary one-term transfer from other colleges will likewise be rejected...
...their last year of secondary schools who have been accepted by the College will be advised to wait until the fall before entering, on the theory that it is better for a class to enter as a unit. The fate of this ruling now lies, according to Dean Buck and Gummere, largely in the lap of Congress, and depends on the action they take on the draft. If by May 15 Selective Service Boards are continuing to draft 18 year olds, then the admission policy may be changed to allow high school seniors to get one or two terms...
...event that Selective Service is abandoned, new Freshmen may still start College in the summer term if they can show good cause, Dean Buck said, but even if the draft is still in effect 16 and 17 year old men from high school, not immediately affected by the draft may be told to wait until the fall...
...Dean Buck emphasized that the University was considering a full year when it laid plans for the coming summer term. The number of courses offered is necessarily modified by the fact that every course cannot be given every term. Certain of the large survey courses would be materially hurt by having them start in June and end in February, he averred...