Word: bulletin
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Harvard Alumni Bulletin of March 26, Dr. Raphael Demos stresses the necessity of closer personal contact between professors and students. In doing so, he has voiced the greatest need of every freshman who, coming from a friendly preparatory school, is apt to find Harvard a vast cold place of fact and knowledge, where men are names and professors are far-away statues pedestaled on a lecture-room platform. In the mind of the newcomer there may arise the feeling that there is no one directly interested in him, no one to whom he can tie; he thinks himself a foundling...
...statements upon actual conditions during the past 30 years, for 24 of which he served as an Overseer, Judge Robert Grant '73, retiring president of the Harvard Club of Boston, formerly president of the Harvard Alumni Association and Board of Overseers, maintains in an article appearing in the Alumni Bulletin published today, that there is no foundation for the criticism of the Harvard Overseers as a materialistic group of "narrow-mintled Bostonians" and Wall Street bankers or corporation lawyers...
Writing in the Harvard Alumni Bulletin issued today, Langdon P. Marvin '98, chairman of the Board of Overseers' standing committee on Relations with the Alumni, and a well known New York lawyer, calls attention to the harm that may be done an institution by criticism which is not founded upon facts. This is the first of a series of short articles on various phases of the University prepared by experts to be published in the Alumni Bulletin. These articles are fostered by the committee of the alumni mentioned above, and deal with the work and purpose of the committee...
...inquiry or study, he cannot appreciate or understand the difficulties and complexities of a great University. In many instances, on such inquiry of study, he would doubtless withhold his criticism. And to rush into print, even into the print of the much too limited field of the Harvard Alumni Bulletin, without knowledge of his facts, is obviously, unfair and often harmful to the University. In the Committee on Relations with the Alumni, and the Secretary for Alumni Affairs, is the machinery, gladly offered by the University, as a ready medium of communication between it and the alumni...
...part, the Committee has decided to publish in the Harvard Alumni Bulletin a series of brief articles on various phases of the University in which it is thought that the alumni will be interested, each prepared by an expert on the subject. It is hoped that they will both enlighten and hearten the alumni. No graduate who understands the present greatness of Harvard will be shaken in his allegiance by temporary disappointments, however grievous they may seem for the moment. For Harvard goes steadily forward...