Word: bulletin
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...anything were needed to refute those occasional critics of the Harvard Glee Club who complain that by going in for first-class music the Club is killing the old college songs, the "Harvard Song Book" would do the trick. Certain graduates have written dismal letters to the "Alumni Bulletin" during the past two or three years, conveying an impression that always until now it has been a major sport for undergraduates to gather in compact groups about a piano of an evening and split the air with "Giniral Grant", but that the Glee Club is spoiling all this...
When a class election, advertised for days beforehand, not only by bulletin board notices, but also by individual post-cards sent to every member, fails to come up to the constitutional quota by half of the required sixty percent vote, the condition of the class might be termed serious. It has been serious in every class for the past few years. But it has reached a point where it cannot be labelled "regrettable" or "unfortunates" and dismissed with an easy shrug of the shoulders as a "lack of class spirit". The Junior state of mind goes far deeper than that...
Statistics, it has often been asserted, can be made to show anything. For instance, as the Alumni Bulletin of last week points out, less than eight percent of this year's awards at the Law School have gone to graduates of Harvard College, although these graduates form eighteen percent of the Law School's enrollment. In addition, all twelve of the higher awards went to men of other colleges...
...other hand, in the same number of the Bulletin is a set of figures, equally interesting, which show that forty Harvard men are now presidents of American colleges. In the State of Maine every college has at its head a Harvard man. The list could be made more impressive by including graduates of the University who have been college presidents but have retired, and by adding the names of former members of the Harvard faculty now serving as executives of other colleges...
...Union tennis tournament play is now in the second round. Men who cannot play at hours posted on the bulletin board at the Union should sign up, stating when they can play...