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...avoid talking about 'best pieces.' What we've established in effect is a collegiate Pulitzer Prize." Most of the committee's members were on the board of the 1943 Harvard Album--then the official title of the Harvard Yearbook. Since 1948, they have been legally constituted as the Dana Reed Prize Committee...
Under the vigorous direction of Dana Reed '43, the 1943 Album had ammassed a profit of some $1,500--a profit which the board members of later hoped to split up among themselves. After graduating from Harvard, the album staff joined the war effort. Reed became a Liberator bomber pilot; on Armistice Day, 1944, his plane was lost in bad weather somewhere over northern Italy. When the Album staff reassembled after the war, the profit motive had lost its allure. Eric Larabee, now editor of Horizon magazine remarked recently, "We suddenly had the impulse that does come to people occasionally...
Unexpectedly, the $1500 total was within the next year doubled by gifts from Reed's family, and from various of his classmates. The committee suddenly had to face the fact of his own permanence. Album members responded unhesitatingly; officially constituting themselves as the Dana Reed Prize Committee, they even began to assess themselves small annual dues...
...Dana Reed Prize Committee, the ex-Albumers had also to evolve some scheme for the formal administration of their award. Characteristically, they agreed to a plan whose basic element was relaxed informality. "We wanted to increase the prestige value of the award," said Kaufmann. "The best idea we could think of was to invite three different guest judges each year. Asking each judge to serve only once--and on a purely voluntary basis, of course--we could impose on people of higher rank, so to speak...
...easy for Council researchers to take the word of Dr. Dana Farnsworth or Dustin Burke or Thomas Bolles or the Deans. Phillips feels that Council members often do not pry enough. When Council reports are condemned as "rubber stamps," the purpose of the investigation is forgotten and the Council suffers another setback...