Word: buckings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Similarly, when Professor Buck announced the extension of Lamont hours to midnight, just one week after the Council had voted not to ask for extension except during reading period, many students chalked up one more boner for their Council. The organization dedicated to representing student opinion appeared less enterprising than the librarian in desiring to meet student demands. Though the Council's decision not to pressure for longer hours had resulted from careful consideration of previous year's figures, it hardly showed initiative...
...strictly from the cob. Man, it was square! Lorenzo Fuller [an alternate Sportin' Life] decided to go scalp the piano. Ned Wright [Robbins] felt the spirit striving and took everybody to the sunny side of the street . . . One of the Russian cats got the spirit and did a buck and wing routine that flipped everybody's wig. Everything was copacabana, just like the tree-all root...
...plainly modeled on Hungary's Joseph Cardinal Mindszenty. In passing its judgment on the imaginary cardinal, the film implies a judgment-before all the facts are in-on the real one. The moviegoer is thus left with the highly unpleasant sensation that somebody is turning a fast buck on the cardinal's misfortunes...
...smaller percentage of additional recruits than the nation. (It has been shown, incidentally, that despite a doubling of college enrollment in recent years the average I.Q. has not fallen). Part of the improvement must be associated with the enlightened admission and scholarship policies carried out by the Conant-Buck and the Pusey-Bundy regimes. Messrs. Bender and Monro and their staffs deserve much credit for their administration of faculty policy...
...fire-hazard conditions. The details of unification, however, were not spelled out in Bailey's report. "What we are primarily concerned with is the health and vigor of Botany itself and what Harvard with its particular set of resources can contribute best toward this central aim,"Paul H. Buck, then Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, said in his foreward to the plan. In January, 1946, with the endorsement of the Arboretum staff, the Corporation agreed that the Bailey Plan would further these ends...