Word: harbus
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Over and above the businessman at the "Bee" School, there is a small smart set who, doffing the green eye shade for a few brief hours, wield the quill for relaxation. The result is four pages of chatter and patter, in the entrepreneurial manner, labelled. The Harbus News, Get it-Har....bus? Well, these journalists didn't like the monicker any better than the next Better Business Bureau...
Much debate has waxed in recent meetings of the HSBA Council and elsewhere among the student body as to the advisability of interrupting the publication of the Harbus News. Since the birth of the HARVARD SERVICE NEWS, and the increased competition in the advertising field resulting therefrom, it is becoming increasingly difficult to make the Harbus New self-supporting. Reliable estimates presented to the HBSA council place the prospective loss on each issue at approximately...
...argument championed by proponents of the Harbus News sitting on the HBSA Council is that a section of their constituency is in no branch of the Service, and there fore is not reached by either the QM or the HARVARD SERVICE NEWS. By reason of this fact, these political theorists content that the Harbus News should be continued, even if such is done at a not inconsiderable loss to the Association...
Association president Charlie Whaler presented a motion that the "Harbus News' be discontinued by reason of the creation of the SERVICE NEWS. The motion died for want of a second with several of the council members speaking against the motions...
...pointed out that some of their constituents were still not in the service, and therefore not reached by the new publication. It was felt, therefore, that the HBSA is under obligation to this group, and should continue publication of the "Harbus News" until June, at which time the affairs of the Association are expected to be suspended for the duration...