Word: bulletin
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...managing editor of the Alumni Bulletin for eight years, Bentinck-Smith had to ward off irate alumni who complained about Harvard's teams, its academic freedom policy, or its inhospitality to old grads. The answers he gives his fellow commuter are paraphrases of the balm he has dispensed through the columns of the Bulletin and to the many visitors to his office. Bentinck-Smith was evidently effective in this missionary work, for in February President Pusey appointed him as Special Assistant to the President...
...this new post, Bentinck-Smith meets not only the world's leading scholars, but its leading screwballs as well. "Strangely enough," an associate on the Bulletin says of him, "dealing with screwballs is the forte of this good, solid, man. He has enough humor to appreciate screwballism." So, the incensed anti-Communist or the Fcencyite to whom the President is always busy, might find himself ushered into Bentinck-Smith's office where he will find a patient listener...
...somewhat removed from Bentinck-Smith's past experience, but Pusey felt he could use the tact and the interest in Harvard which marked the successful Bulletin years. On his side, Bentinck-Smith accepted the offer for two reasons: "First, it will give me a chance to serve Harvard in a larger field. And then, too, my admiration for Mr. Pusey influenced me to accept his unexpected offer...
...study of the past getting to be a thing of the past? One man who thinks so is Historian George Barr Carson Jr. of the University of Chicago. If the present trend in U.S. education persists, says he, in the current American Association of University Professors' Bulletin, the study of history may very well disappear completely under the new academic preoccupation with "contemporary living...
...Tribune's modern plant. Later he repeated the same trick with other papers he took over, pepped them up with wider wire-service coverage, broadened local-news coverage for such successful small papers as the Rock Springs Rocket (circ. 5,935), Sunday Miner (5,900) and Laramie Bulletin...