Word: bulletin
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Harvard Bulletin, Inc., which publishes the magazine bi-weekly during the college year, is a non-profit corporation that is completely self-supporting and has been for all but a few years of its long existence. Admittedly a sort of interlocking directorate exists, with William Bentinck-Smith '37 being the current University official on the Bulletin's board of directors, but no one questions the magazine's spasmodically-asserted right to disagree with any Harvard official it chooses, from President Puscy on down...
Thus the Harvard Bulletin, in the words of editor Philip W. Quigg of the Princeton Weekly, is "Possibly the only alumni magazine today that has to hawk subscriptions in competition with commercial publications like Time and Look...
Members of the Bulletin staff are quite proud of this autonomy, and repeatedly emphasize that their magazine is in no sense a "house organ of the Dean's office." Joseph R. Hamlen '04, President and Publisher of the Bulletin since 1927, for example, recalls telling more than one University president the magazine could not carry an editorial or news item in exactly the form the president wanted. On the whole, however, there has been little conflict between the Bulletin and the University, and Hamlen characterizes their relationship as that of "pleasant playmates...
...there have been times when life in the playpen wasn't so pleasant. One of the latest of these spats between Massachusetts Hall and Wadsworth House--the old, yellow wood and brick building in the southwest corner of the Yard where the Bulletin's editorial offices are located--occurred in March of 1949, when Bentinck-Smith was editor of the magazine. At that time the University was still over-run with war veterans, and improved attention to the individual student, through such media as advising and tutorial, was sorely needed. In addition, a consistently losing football team and charges...
...order to point out these unhappy circumstances and perhaps t inspire a remedy, the Bulletin of March 12, 1949 printed in a prominent position a letter from Hamilton T. Brown '48 entitled: "My Son Won't Go to Harvard." Brown, who had just finished four years at the College after previously attending a state university, found "shocking deficiencies" in the University's Faculty and its undergraduate life, and concluded his letter...