Word: bulletin
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Dean Bender, writing in the Alumni Bulletin, confessed that he was disturbed about his 3500 veterans. Too may of them, he said, were digging "academic foxholes." Dean Bender underlined the existence of two levels on which the undergraduate operates: on one he is the pure individual, plowing alone through the work laid out for him on his study card; he is, on this level, the only individual that matters. On the other level he is an individual in society: one of two, or three, or four roommates, one of three hundred members of a house; one of 5500 undergraduates...
...explanation of this curiosity, the bulletin reminds readers that "the primary rewards of academic life are contingent upon reseach activities and not upon teaching...
...this led the Alumni Bulletin to cite Harvard, in 1912, as a "good example of the direct service a University can do to the country by intelligent foresight and readiness to open up new fields of study." The Alumni Bulletin was speaking somewhat before the fact. In 1925, Baker, after having spent more than ten years in an attempt to persuade the University to permit him to solicit funds for a decent theatre, slipped quietly away to Yale, in what Morison calls the greatest victory of Yale over Harvard in the twentieth century. Two years later the word was revealed...
...Bulletin's view can the selection of the memorial be made on the mere basis of the expense involved "and the consequent case or difficulty to be anticipated in raising sufficient funds." The auditorium and activities space in a Memorial Center, the expansion of hygiene facilities, and the additional scholarships would each satisfy a distinct shortcoming in the University. Although the Memorial Center is of course the more desirable choice, the lone fact that serious controversy exists renders a referendum appropriate. This step would surely put the issue on a level beyond petty bickering and the sort of ill-feeling...
...HYRC, most recent addition to the University's political action groups, is the largest of its kind, according to a bulletin released this week by its planning committee...