Word: publicity
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...that these happenings have no channel through which they may reach the outside world as news. Yet those "happenings which affect the outside world", those "discoveries of Harvard scientiests" which are of interest to outsiders have been the subject of numbers of releases by this office to the public, as for instance Professor Shapley's announcement of the discovery of the center of the universe, or the acquisition of the Nelson letters by Widener Library. One hundred and twenty-one releases of Harvard news have been given to the press since October...
...criticisms of its undergraduates are featured by the press. Under these circumstances it is imperative for all concerned with such matters, student editors as well as administrative officers, to have regard for the exactness of their statements, and the misapprehensions which they may create in the minds of the public. Yours very truly, Robert K. Lamb, Executive Secretary In charge of publicity...
Aside from the mere figure of 121 releases, which at best is a ponderous argument, the factors which are most desirable in the public eye are quality, timeliness, and the selection of news. It should also be pointed out that in handling the subject of greatest interest to the public, namely the House Plan, the majority of the official releases were merely late confirmations of news already printed in the metropolitan dailies...
...American youngsters whose parents were in the Islands for military or commercial reasons. At that time, I remember going to a Catholic school in Cotabato where all instruction was given by men in Spanish and I was the only white pupil. Shortly after, an American school teacher opened a public school, and I transferred to it. I sat between a Moro kid, a Chinese, and two Mestizos, and I joined heartily in "My countree 'tis off dee" every time a visitor showed up. What a relief it was to go to Baguio with twenty odd other American boys...
...13th and Irving streets, N. W. swing heavy blue double-decked buses. There they stop, to start up again with a splattering roar of the exhaust. At that corner stands the Friends Meeting House where President and Mrs. Hoover worship. So loud were the bus noises that the Public Utilities Commission of the District of Columbia ordered the vehicles to take another route on Sunday mornings. Last Sunday the President worshipped in peace...