Word: bulletin
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...With my Bulletin today I received a shock. Gone was the lively cover that used to adorn it. In its place, a format which could just as well be taken over with little change by the undertaker's association. From now on I shall be ashamed to show the Bulletin to my non-Harvard friends. Princeton has its orange and black, Yale its blue. Well, what the h... has happened to Harvard's Crimson...
Through its 56 years of publication the Bulletin has become rather impervious to such criticisms, however, and its current editor can laugh them off quite readily. For despite what certain alumni may say, members of the Bulletin staff know that the magazine has its admirers...
Probably the most significant of these admirers is the American Alumni council, an impartial organization which annually examines over 140 alumni magazines and selects one as best maintaining a "high level of editorial achievement." In 1948, when the Bulletin was celebrating its 50th year of continuous publication, it received the Alumni Council's award as "the most distinguished alumni magazine of the year" in the United States and Canada...
Uniqueness among alumni magazines was nothing new for the Bulletin, however. In 1948, as is the case today, and as was the case back in 1898 when editor Jerome D. Greene '96 watched the first copy of Harvard's new publication roll off the press, the Bulletin stood almost lone as an alumni magazine completely free of outside support and control...
Although recognized as the official organ of the Harvard Alumni association and the Associated Harvard Clubs, the Bulletin is financially and editorially independent of both these organizations, and of the University itself...