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...Buck, in his attempts to counterbalance the more introverted, private school "floppy ducklings," as he called them, advocated digging deeper into the public schools and his initiatives have slowly developed into Harvard's present dense web of recruitment with more than 6,000 actively recruiting alumni...
...Kirkland Place, a 110-person Quonset hut was constructed and housed new faculty-nursery school teachers for veteran's children. Provost Paul H. Buck made light of the overcrowded facility, saying that the makeshift school had a "waiting list rivaling that of the Committee of Admission of Harvard College...
...Buck described the vision for a new Harvard full of "illogical co-minglings...
...late 1940s, however, President Conant, Dean Bender and Provost Buck began work to make Harvard a national university with a student body that reflected the breadth of American diversity...
...Buck, in the search of "healthy, extrovert American youth," was the force behind the movement to draw new blood from the West and South...