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...Harvard Fund has jumped more than $100,000 ahead of its record 1953 pace, David T. W. McCord '21, Fund director, announced yesterday...
...tribute to President Pusey that 600 more alumni have contributed than at this time last year," said McCord. "All indications point to our reaching 17,000 contributions by our Dec. 31 deadline and this should insure our receiving at least $600,000, easily topping last year's record," he added...
...typical of the modern Bulletin, which Hamlen inaugurated that day in 1939, that what he called "the new Alumni Bulletin" itself became old-fashioned within two years. Under the leadership of David McCord '21, who replaced Merrill upon the latter's death in 1940, the magazine was again completely redesigned for the fall of '41. In addition, the old athletic weekly was finally made a bi-weekly, and thus the Bulletin took the essential form that it has today...
Bentinck-Smith who became editor when McCord resigned in 1946 and held the post until last winter, brought the magazine more certainly than over into competition with leading commercial publications. His aim, he says, was to make the bulletin combine the news efficiency of Time with the literary flavor of The New Yorker, and his efforts toward that end were officially recognized in 1948 by the Sibley award committee...
Other features in the contemporary Bulletin are a comprehensive and well-read letters department, a column of "antiquarian chitchat" by ex-editor McCord entitled "The College Pump," a university section in which current releases from the Harvard News Office are re-written in a clear, light style and with background information added, an Undergraduate column written by the Bulletin's undergraduate editor about life at the College, and--of primary interest to many alumni--a report on the past fortnight's athletic happenings...