Word: bulletin
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...other Harvard magazines, one the brash but impressive creation of an undergraduate and the other the dull official publication of the College administration, had already been unsuccessful as vehicles of University news when the Bulletin began its try. It was formed in 1898 under editor Jerome Greene as the weekly publication of the Athletic Association of Harvard Graduates, a group whose purpose was "to increase alumni interest in Harvard athletics and, as a by-product, to interest promising athletes from the preparatory schools...
...first issue of the Bulletin, which appeared November 7, 1898, gave the following as the new magazine's objectives...
...statement of policy added, however, "The Bulletin will not be an athletic paper... in any exclusive sense...
...despite this last sentence, and despite Greene's discontent with the publication's athletic affiliation, the early Bulletin was little if not an athletic paper. The very first issue, for example, subordinated its statement of objectives to a congratulation of the football team for defeating Pennsylvania, and the third issue, following a victory over Yale, carried a typical lead editorial urging readers...
...very rare indeed in the early years for an issue of the Bulletin to neglect to congratulate, console, or exhort some Crimson athletic team...