Word: bucked
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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With regard to his future plans Buck said," I've got some writing I want to do." He will probably continue his study of the American Civil War. Buck won the Pulitzer Prize in history in 938 for The Road to Reunion, a study of Reconstruction...
...Buck became librarian of Harvard College and director of the University Library in 1955. The Library added 1,400,000 volumes during his nine years as librarian...
When President Conant retired in 1953, he chaired the committee that assumed the president's duties. Harvard was then under attack from Senator McCarthy. Buck was later praised by Arthur M. Schlesinger Sr. as a defender "of the timeless values of freedom of teaching and learning" for his actions during that period...
...founder and director of the Center for Advanced Study in Behavioral Sciences, Buck has chaired its board of directors since 1960. He is also chairman of the Ford Foundation's Committee on the Role of Education in American History...
...Buck was born in Columbus, Ohio in 1899. He graduated from Ohio State and later earned and A.M. there. He received a second A.M. and a Ph.d. from Harvard, in 1924 and 1935 He holds honorary degrees from Brown, Princeton, Tufts, and Harvard