Word: bulletin
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...clipping from The Harvard Alumni Bulletin, appearing in an adjoining column, declares as one with the privilege of knowledge that opposition to the House Plan is "inconsiderable", and is bound to decrease rapidly. This optimism might pass unnoticed, a species of whistling to keep the courage up in the face of the facts, if its zeal did not plunge into a series of generalities as unwarranted as they are sweeping...
First of all, The Bulletin assumes that the disapproval of the undergraduate papers has rested upon inadequate information rather than upon intelligent understanding, and mentions the CRIMSON as an instance. As a matter of fact, the editors of the CRIMSON have kept in intimate contact with the development of the House Plan and have founded their objections on consideration of all the facts which could be obtained by anyone from the University authorities. And yet The Bulletin's supposition of the ignorance of the CRIMSON indicates the jealousy which has guarded from the public much prompt information about the House...
...Bulletin itself, apparently, sees clearly enough. Besides speaking for the undergraduates, it takes the voice of the alumni, the faculty, and even the social clubs, and makes them all join in one grand assent. On what authority it says these things, except that of habit, it does not publish. The CRIMSON has never pretended to reflect a general undergraduate opinion, but its editors believe that they are correct in suggesting that undergraduate opinion would not choose to be interpreted by such a conformist medium as The Bulletin. The latest essay of that paper is merely another expression of that tacit...
...Professor Hall's letter apparently led some of the Boston newspapers to say that a large proportion of the Harvard Faculty, the undergraduates, and the alumni were hostile to the "house plan." Now, the Bulletin is in a position where it can form a reasonably sound judgment about the opinions of Harvard men, young and old. We are certain that the opposition to the new project, from any source, is inconsiderable, and that such as exists is based on unfamiliarity with the enterprise. Members of the Faculty are, naturally enough, concerned about the details, and it is quite possible that...
...King," said the bulletin, "is now able to read and apply his mind for short periods of time. Complete recovery is still some months distant...