Word: bulletin
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Roland Fleer, in his letter defending the Harvard Glee Club (published in the Alumni Bulletin of January 28), would have it that Mr. Slocum and I do not know what we are talking about when we venture to criticise the conduct of the Glee Club in New York during the past few years. There are a good many holes in Mr. Fleer's defense, but it suffices here to remark only that Mr. Slocum at the present time is the president of the New York Harvard Club, which has nearly 3000 resident members, is serving a second term...
...withdrawal of the Harvard Glee Club from the annual Intercollegiate Singing Contest seems to have unduly excited a few of the graduates living in New York, two of whom have written irate letters to the Harvard CRIMSON and the Bulletin. To these letters G. W. Woodworth, acting conductor, has replied showing that the club has lived up to its agreements, and has acted entirely within its rights...
Last week the Manhattan Merchants' Association stepped into the clear; advocated a constant Easter; stated in a bulletin that the second Sunday in April "will be" the date it believes will be adopted; said further: "A late Easter often proves disastrous to sellers of many lines of merchandise because it shortens the spring season, thereby reducing the volume of business, while the lengthened winter season is of little benefit. With the adoption of a fixed date, all such difficulties will disappear. Clergymen were vexed...
President Lowell in his recent report called attention to the narrowness of the training which candidates for the doctorate undergo. In the current Alumni Bulletin is significant comment on one phase of this subject: "The average graduate student is greatly stimulated and enriched not only by his opportunities for study, but by his contact with his fellow-students, and carries the memory and the inspiration to the end of his days. But the social values are realized not because of, but in spite of, the conditions of his life in Cambridge. These men are the future professors of American colleges...
Professor David Gordon Lyon, S.T.D. '01, Curator of the Semitic Museum of the University, wrote the article which is herewith reprinted in part from the Alumni Bulletin. The handicap the museum is now under due to lack of funds must be overcome by voluntary donations from members of the University and its alumni...