Word: bulletin
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Sensible people have long recognized that Harvard's chief contribution to education lies in its service as a trade school, catering to the practical and necessary vocations rather than to those fit only for scholars in ivory towers. But the recent burning of a Mather Hall bulletin board has pointed up one glaring deficiency in the training program. Two dollar fines will never "make 150 detectives in Mather"; crime-tracing instruction is necessary...
With the student sleuths so grossly inept, the University would be foolish to spend its three hundred dollars to rebuild wooden bulletin boards in Mather. It could better use this sum to run a short course in detective-science, teaching young criminologists how to discover who burned the notice boards...
...examinations the student detectives could most convincingly prove their value. The trained snoopers might serve as exam proctors, saving the University thousands of dollars a year. And with the saving in the first year, the Mather bulletin boards could be rebuilt in bronze: shiny, handsome, and indestructible...
Continued destruction of Mather Hall bulletin boards has led to the assessment of $2 fines to almost half of the members of Leverett House by Master Leigh Hoadley...
...bulletin board in F-entry was burned three times. This entry is used by students in the other entries in Mather as they must pass through it to get to the dining room. It is also the only exit to the street after...