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...Interim Reports...
Provost of the University from 1945 to 1953. Buck was acting President during President Conant's wartime government service and again during the interim between the Conant and Pusey administrations...
...Moscow last week, the newspaper Vechernyaya Moskva published an interim look at the work of the State Spelling Commission, which is preparing a new report on language reform to be issued next year. The major drive will be against useless double letters in Russian words; thus kommunist will become komunist, appetit, apetit, and so on. Of 1,200 Russian words containing double letters, only twelve will be retained. Among them: Russia and other proper names. The soft sign following sibilants at the end of words will disappear, as did the hard sign following consonants, and 16 rules of hyphenation...
...girls will quietly shake their heads over the change, like the four lowerclassmen who wrote in to the Sophian, "With the loss of Interim, Smith has become just another good school." But nearly everyone will slowly being to agree to his own culpability. "The abuses of Interim have been flagrant," write the Sophian editors. "Unfortunately you can't run a College forever on an ideal if it only benefits a minority...
...Interim was an extraordinary opportunity," they conclude, "but now that we've been granted reading periods let's make the best of them...