Word: bulletin
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...those sons of Harvard whose deaths befell them in the service of the Allies and the United States in the war against Germany. An impression to the contrary was due to the fact that a newspaper, in an advance account of the Memorial Day ceremonies, reprinted from the Bulletin an earlier, unofficial list of all the Harvard men, including Germans, who have fallen in the war, without informing itself about the names actually appearing on the panel accepted by the University...
...inpired in their active members, teachers and taught, is a contagious spirit. A more intimate knowledge of its workings is a stimulus of high potency for its former members, who in their turn may bring to it from their diverse pursuits a quickening influence of their own. The Alumni Bulletin...
Many forms of recognition for the war-work of American college students have been proposed and adopted -- from the granting of academic degrees to the printing of special groups of names in commencement programs and college catalogues. The Bulletin has been in sympathy with the Harvard authorities in the position they have taken, that academic work is one thing and military service quite another, and that the same recognition is not appropriate to both. Far less formal than any of the usual tokens by which the colleges have expressed, or proposed to express, their appreciation of what their sons have...
...whom the idea of giving to every Harvard fighter a tangible emblem of his university, to be carried into whatever danger, may appeal. Should it tall into the hands of the enemy, it could suggest only the quality of the backing that is behind so many Americans. --The Alumni Bulletin...
...Bulletin has touched before, however, on the desirability of maintaining the College as an institution of learning, and thereby performing a function of the highest value to the national life, just so long as there are any students to be taught. In looking ahead there are uncertainties enough without adding to their number by raising any doubts about the stability of our most firmly established universities. The new elective pamphlet is a comforting pledge that Harvard College, with many adaptations to present needs, will spread a generous table next year. Alumni Bulletin...