Word: bucked
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During the years 1945 to 1953, while President James B. Conant '14 spent much time in government service, Buck ran the University in his capacity as provost and dean...
...Paul H. Buck, Pulitzer Prize-winning historian and dean of the Faculty from 1942 to 1953, died suddenly at his home in Cambridge on December 23. Buck, who had been in failing health, was 79 years...
...career at Harvard as a professor, dean, provost and director of the University library spanned 50 years and established Buck as a leading author and administrator...
...Buck received the Pulitzer Prize in 1938 for "The Road to Reunion," considered "the standard book" on reconstruction after the Civil War, Donald H. Fleming, Trumbull Professor of American History, said yesterday...
...Buck's study, an "innovative, imaginative work," concentrates on the re-establishment of ties between the North and South, rather than treating the period of reconstruction as "a tragic era," Frank B. Friedel, Warren Professor of American History, said yesterday...