Buck
Buck names 3 different subjects across the 6 encyclopedias on this shelf. Each is set out below.
Buck DUDLEY, an American organist
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
DUDLEY, an American organist, composer, and author, born in Hartford, Conn., March 10, 1839. He was for many years organist of churches in Brooklyn, N. Y. Aside from a number of cantatas, he has written several books: "A Dictionary of Musical Terms," a work on the "Influence of the Organ in History" (1882), etc. The "Centennial Cantata," for the opening of the Exposition of 1876, by appointment of the United States Centennial Commission, the "Forty-Sixth Psalm," the "Legend of Don Munio," Munio," the "Golden Legend," of Longfellow, and the "Marmion" symphonic overture, are among his larger works with orchestra. He has composialso employed his pen in the co tion of chamber music, songs, and male voice music. Among his larger works are the "Voyage of Columbus," and the *Light of Asia." He died Oct. 6, 1909.
Buck BEAUMONT BONAPARTE, an American army officer
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
BEAUMONT BONAPARTE, an American army officer, born in Mayhew, Miss., in 1860. He graduated from the United States Military Academy in 1885 and from the Army War College in 1909. He was made brigadier-general, Aug. 5, 1917, and went with the First Expeditionary Force to France. He commanded the Third Division of the Fifth Army Corps and did excellent work in the Meuse-Argonne offensive. In 1918 he was promoted to the rank of major-general. He received the D. S. C. and various foreign decorations.
Buck a name sometimes distinctively appropriated to the adult male of the fallow deer
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
a name sometimes distinctively appropriated to the adult male of the fallow deer, the female of which is a doe. The term is often also applied to the male of other species of deer, as of the roebuck, although never to that of the red deer, which, when mature, is a stag or a hart.
What Has Changed in the Last Century
Collier's in 1921 still treated Dudley Buck as a living presence in American music "aside from a number of cantatas" — his "Centennial Cantata" of 1876 was once a national event — yet within a generation his oratorios and cantatas had vanished from concert programmes, and today he survives almost solely in a handful of church anthems and organ pieces. Beaumont Bonaparte Buck, described as freshly decorated for the Meuse-Argonne, retired soon after and later published a memoir of his career; his division command in 1918 is now a footnote in histories of the American Expeditionary Force. The definition of "buck" has broadened rather than shifted: the fallow-deer sense Collier's called the distinctive one is now the least common, and in North American usage a buck is by default a male white-tailed deer, while the rule that a mature red deer is a stag or hart still holds.
Written for this edition, 2026.