Word: bucked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...response to "the greatest pressure ever put on American colleges," Dean Buck yesterday estimated that the College enrollment would reach 3000 for the coming summer term, and hit a peak of possibly 5800 in the fall, 2300 above what he termed the "desirable" level...
...Provost Buck and Dean Hanford will speak Tuesday at 12 o'clock in the New Lecture Hall at a meeting scheduled for a discussion of students choice of a field of concentration...
...week in a letter to the Student Council announced that there was no financial stringency involved in the tutorial limitation. He said further that the responsibility for tutorial rests entirely with the Faculty. Paradox? And further complicated by Mr. Conant's assurance that he stands four square behind Provost Buck, the implied target of Faculty complaints...
Congressional emasculation of the much-debated draft act has provided the world with the year's best example of electioneering and buck-passing. Despite repeated pleas by President Truman and General Eisenhower for Congressional support of our world-wide commitments, the House of Representatives has apparently decided that reelection is more important than reconstruction...
...summer of '43, when it first became the University's only newspaper. But tucked in among columns by and for army and navy trainees--The Lucky Bag, Scuttlebut, Ward Room Topics, Specialist's Corner, Creating a Ripple, and the like-- was an irregular bylined feature called "Passing the Buck." Written by the Service News' first editor, Robert S. Landau '45, who later was killed in naval action in the invasion of Lingayen, Gulf, the Philippines, the column attacked a "back-handed diatribe" in the Boston Herald, demanded resumption of gridiron hostilities with Yale, and said other things which made people...