Word: bucked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Joint instruction," though on a less extensive basis than the present system, will be a permanent feature of the College, Provost Paul H. Buck stated yesterday...
...four competitive zones, then plunged into a wholesale, 15-sport Olympics. For the Army Air Forces, which did a heroic shuttle job (example: G.I. horseshoe pitchers were flown from Honolulu to Korea for interzone eliminations), it was a big job. Last week, with full colonels competing with and against buck privates, the program reached its final fury. Major-sport results...
Speaking to a group of students representing all the undergraduate organizations a few weeks ago, Dean Buck said, "Gentlemen, I envy you. We have just come through an irregular war period. We are in a period of transition, and we are finding that irregular too. Harvard will not be comfortable next term as it used to be, but all of you will be working with the finest bunch of men the College has ever seen. As I say, I envy...
...Dean Buck's lyrioism concerned the generation of veterans that is today returning to the University to pick up its loose ends. These veterans have already discovered that Harvard, as Gertrude Stein might say, is Harvard is Harvard is Harvard or is it. The place has changed, and you can't help noticing...
...envious" address at the Student Council dinner, Dean Buck expressed his belief in the value and need for independence of undergraduate organizations. The rest of University Hall appears to share the provost's stand; in fact, Thomas Matters '43--some of you will remember him--who has been made a dean, will be primarily concerned with "guiding properly the revival of extra-curricular activities." Matters was president of the Student Council...