Word: bulletin
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...competency of University 4 is a matter concerning which the undergraduate is pretty much at ease; but some alumni have, in recent issues of the Alumni Bulletin, questioned the procedure of the Dean's office in handling probation. To these gentlemen Assistant Dean Nichols replies in a soothing fashion in the current number of the Bulletin. He parries the assault neatly with a general account of the system in effect, and then thrusts vigorously home with examples and statistics to show the validity of his statements; that "there is nothing arbitrary or automatic about the present method, but that, rather...
...twelve bottles of anti-pneumonia serum and three white mice, and accompanied by Thomas B. Applegate, private secretary to Mr. Rockefeller. Immediately on his arrival that evening the white mice were inoculated with Floyd Bennett's sputum. Just before midnight the results of the inoculation were published. The bulletin read: "The type of pneumonia from which Bennett is suffering has been disclosed by the inoculation of mice as type III." A simple statement, but it meant the sera were useless, the flight was in vain, the breaks were against Bennett...
...making lamp chimneys, incandescent lamps, baking dishes. Enamel ware, plumbing fixtures, chemical apparatus owe much of their resistance to borax. But wherever borax has gone in, the price has gone up. Since the discovery of kernite, borax has fallen steadily in price as shown last week by the Industrial Bulletin (monthly) of Arthur D. Little, Inc.; expectations are that this decrease will continue, not only because of the increased supply but because of the competition between borax from brine and borax from kernite...
Since this would never be printed in the Alumni Bulletin, I send it with the hope that you can print it as my humble opinion of a battle lost as well as poorly fought. Perhaps I am precocious as an alumnus...
Ingenious cross-referencing according to rank revealed that while professors and associate professors put most emphasis on Dependability and Sincerity, Scholarliness was admitted the universal requisite among instructors and assistant professors. Point is lent thereby to the phrase recently used by the Harvard Alumni Bulletin "the stifling influence of graduate scholarship." Confession like this is good for the academic soul...