Word: bucked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Action on the loyalty oath, which the Council has been investigating for four weeks, will be in the form of a recommendation to be sent to President Conant, Provost Buck, and Dean Bender. The recommendation will "urge" that the University administrators "employ every means at their disposal" to secure the elimination of certain Navy oath requirements for reserve students which the Council feels to be "in conflict with the free and unhampered exchange of ideas in a free academic society...
Variety reported that the panicky industry was passing the buck to "outside producers and advertising agencies" and hastily contemplating a self-governing "code." While it considered what to do, it got the worst blast of all. In Clifton, N.J., Elementary School Principal Charles M. Sheehan flatly blamed "the late hours kept by children due to television programs" for schoolwork "inferior to my accepted standard." As an anti-TV clincher, Schoolmaster Sheehan announced some damaging statistics: "Last year at this time there were but two failures in one class. This year, in the same class, there...
...Methodists have been studying the state of the world and the dangers it holds for religion. Behind closed doors in a Manhattan hotel, 36 bishops of the Methodist Church spent three days trying to analyze the strengths and weaknesses, the failures and successes of Communism. Last week, at Buck Hill Falls, Pa., Methodists assembled for the tenth annual meeting of their Board of Missions and Church Extension. Some of what they heard was cheering: Chinese Communists were treating missionaries better than had been expected and the church in the U.S. was growing fast enough to put up a new church...
...Provost Buck will give a luncheon in his honor today and the Harvard-Yenshing Institute will give one tomorrow. Both luncheons will be held at the Faculty Club...
...spring of 1939 Graustein and Provost Buck, then an associate professor of History, were appointed assistant deans of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences. Before the year was out, Graustein died in an automobile accident...