Word: bucks
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After 45 years at Harvard, Paul H. Buck, professor of History and former provost of the University, is retiring this Fall. He will become University Professor, emeritus...
During the 40's and 50's Buck led several important innovations at Harvard, including the establishment of the Soc Rel department combining the fields of sociology, social psychology, and social anthropology. He also served as chairman of the committee that developed the General Education program...
...Buck served as provost from 1945 to 1953, a position later abolished. He was dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences from 1942 to 1953 and director of the University Library from1942 to 1953 and director of the University Library from...
...eventually got around to appointing an overseer there; he was the first in a long line of "permanent representatives," all of whom, says Walter, have complained about the lack of money and direction from Delancey Place. But there has always been money to spruce things up just before Miss Buck arrives. Once, at the foundation's center at Sosa, Korea, $5,000 went into hurry-up redecorations, although there apparently was not enough to put up a fence around a small pond on the property. One evening during the Statesiders' visit, the body of a four-year...
Harris' behavior was erratic. He threw public tantrums and offended potential patrons in their own houses. One friend called him "a Svengali," but Miss Buck was firm: Harris acted as he did because he was "very brilliant, very high-strung and artistic...