Word: bulletin
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Although the Bulletin gave no evidence of agreeing with Brown's sentiments, and indeed, in its next issue carried many replies under the heading: "Some Sons Will Go to Harvard!," high University officials considered publication of the letter extremely ill-advised, and said so privately...
Perhaps the sharpest clash between the Bulletin and Massachusetts Hall policy occurred in the spring of 1950, when the University proposed to build a new Varsity Club...
Should the University build a new Varsity Club with part of the unrestricted legacy of the late Allston Burr? (the magazine asked in a May 27 editorial). The Bulletin feels it should not. There are few matters on which the Bulletin takes issue with the administration, but this is one of them. The project should be abandoned...
Opposition by the Bulletin, together with that of many enlightened alumni and of various other parties, finally succeeded in defeating the new Varsity Club, even though the Corporation had already approved the project and architectural plans had been drawn. The legacy of Allston Burr '89 was used instead to finance the present system of Allston Burr Senior Tutors...
That the Harvard Alumni Bulletin should ever oppose an improvement of the College's athletic facilities might have seemed preposterous, however, to someone reading the publication back near its founding in 1898. For the Bulletin was born with an admitted athletic preoccupation, and in a sense its history has been simply a gradual transition of interests from Soldiers Field and the river to University Hall and Widener...