Word: bulletin
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Freshman who accepts this advice has difficulty in following it. What shall he go out for? All during the first year, the bulletin boards at, the Freshman Dormitories are covered with cards announcing this competition or that. There are competitions for athletic managerships, for musical activities, and for the college publications. The printed announcements are brief and unsatisfactory. They bear the name of the activity, the hour at which the candidates are to assemble, the length of the competition, perhaps, and little more. The Freshman picks some activity quite at random, finds after a few weeks that he is quite...
TIME, in the Jan. 19 issue, referred to the New York Evening Bulletin as "morons' caviar." Might not TIME be called "angels' food for the aristocracy of brains? Angels' food is not very substantial. ELIZABETH KING BLACK...
...letter published in the "Harvard Alumni Bulletin" of December 18, Mr. F. R. Stoddard '99 stated that at Commencement last year his class sat next the class of 1924 and he was amazed because "the majority of the Senior class seemed to be short in stature, frail of build, round shouldered, and wearing glasses...
...regards calories, the Bulletin was irate: "Regarding the system of estimating calories, Childs should offer an explanation, for the bill-of-fare says that bacon contains 300 calories, while bacon and eggs contain 380. That allows 80 calories for eggs. Fried ham alone contains 400 calories, but add eggs and you have only 390, so that eggs lose their calories when fried with ham but preserve them when fried with bacon. On the other hand, Childs tells you that fried eggs alone have 190 calories. Can you figure...
Then, undoubtedly unconscious of the one and a half million odd dollars net profit which Mr. Samuel S. Childs is able yearly to distribute to his common stockholders, the Bulletin suggested that "if Childs proposes to charge the people twice what food is worth, some of the excess profits should go to the people instead of being devoted to Coney Island palaces...