Word: bulletin
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Alumni Bulletin...
...often that captions are as definitely descriptive as is the sub-head on the Harvard University Bulletin before me in regard to The Proposed "800th Anniversary Fund." The subhead reads, "To Strengthen the Life of the University and Increase the National Scope of Its Usefulness...
Undergraduates are fated to be "indifferent old maggots with a funny accent," according to an editorial in the current issue of the Alumni Bulletin. This is the "logical definition" of the typical Harvard man, and one "which will serve as well as the next...
...Harvard accent," according to the Bulletin, is easy. There is no such thing. Citizens of the rolling-R States confuse it with the Boston accent (Hahvahd, haht, cah, etc.), which is the same as the New England accent, except that its point of origin is in the throat rather than the nose...
This statement was provoked by a letter sent to the Boston Herald, by David Moore '36, asking the question, "What is a Harvard gentleman?" The Bulletin discarded the Herald's answer that the Harvard gentleman is the man whose gentlemanly qualities "are so unadvertised they become apparent only when they are tested" as being altogether too mild. They went searching for a definition that would leave to the Harvard man his long-cherished position as a general target for all foes...