Word: buckly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...between nine and ten o'clock in order to attend the annual meeting on the choice of a field of concentration. At the meeting, which will be held in the New Lecture Hall, Dean A. C. Hanford will preside, and Professor Roscoe Pound and Assistant Professor Paul H. Buck will address the class...
...what was perhaps the clumsiest piece of buck-passing ever perpetrated, Police Commissioner Timilty last Friday traced Boston's juvenile delinquency back to the "Dean End Kids." Mr. Timilty's statement, which was made following the daring capture of five 13-year-old members of the Green Hornet Gang, deplored "the harm these pictures are doing to young minds," and ended on a note of despair: "There is nothing the police can do about them...
...intensive program of diaphragm study. He was shunted from the Conant office to Dr. Arlie V. Bock, and from there to Clarence B. Van Wyck, secretary of the department of physical education. Finally he was allowed to exhale before physical education instructor David C. Hyde. "Shoving the buck, that's what it was," raged the professor...
...Ellsworth B. Buck is a hard-hitting business man who three years ago became a member of New York City's Board of Education. Mr. Buck was appalled to learn that the city's 400,000 junior and senior high-school pupils were taught virtually nothing about sex. He decided that something should be done about it. Last summer he saw his chance. From the Board of Superintendents came a new course of science study for junior high schools, proposing to teach pupils about reproduction among birds and flowers but not among animals. Mr. Buck & colleagues promptly sent...
...Board of Education, even more impressed by protests from Catholic groups than by their responsibility toward innocence, decided not to teach "mammalian reproduction." But Mr. Buck was not done. He sent his secretary, Eugene R. Canudo (onetime secretary to Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia) to make an investigation into youthful sex problems in the nation's biggest city. Mr. Canudo collected literature on sex education. He also went to the courts, the police, the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children. Last week he brought back a report that caused the Board of Education to reconsider its decision. Salient facts...