Word: bucked
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...happen to be one of the many stockholders who lost some money in this market. But I can hardly blame President Kennedy or anybody else for my loss. Most of the people, including myself, wanted to make a "fast buck," but it just doesn't work out that...
...effects of the Buck regime were far-reaching. The before he took office, the Faculty Committee on Educational Policy had been formed, and acting through it Buck was able to initiate a host of new policies. Some of the most innovations came only in round-about ways-- can be traced back to Buck or to the CEP -- which to much the same thing. For example, one of the of the CEP was a possible disintegration of the curriculum because of wartime drain on Harvard . The CEP established a few survey courses the core of a liberal arts education...
...Conant was scrupulously attentive to that president's job which is perhaps more important than any other -- making the right appointments at the right fundamentally, he wanted someone else to run for him. Buck did just this, and the sentiments expressed in an address to the alumni the spring after his retirement were no exaggeration: "For more than a decade he and I, if I may say so, have been a team. I happened to have worn the ranking hat, but he carried the load; the initiative, imagination, accomplishment were his. For his assistance, I shall always be grateful...
...appointment of McGeorge Bundy as Dean of Faculty -- a candidate urged upon Pusey by Buck -- made it difficult for the new president to reach the College...
Bundy continued the Buck interpretation of the functions and powers of a Dean. A typical Bundy project was the Sophomore Standing program. In his first weeks in office he drafted a report advocating creation of Advanced Placement and Sophomore Standing, and within a month had successfully steered his proposals through the CEP and a meeting of the full Faculty...