Word: abouts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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IM LOOKING at The Harvard Advocate Centennial Anthology. It's an enormous book 460 pages of sermons, poems, informal essays. T.S. Eliot has some delicate lyrics composed while he was an undergraduate here. Theodore Roosevelt has written a bellicose speech on "Harvard and Preparedness" (including some remarks about "the absurd...
I don't know if it is because institutions seem to be crumbling about us, or because what happened in the past appears embarrassing, but this book strikes me as very unreal. The Advocate simply isn't like that any more. These earnest poems, this heritage! To think that all...
On Monday nights, the Advocate Board gathers about a rough-hewn, medieval table in the Sanctum, slouching in the grand wooden chairs with these mottoes carved in them, and talks about its own survival. Our emotions languish with the seasons, because there is seldom any heat in the building; during...
Still, The Advocate is America's oldest college literary magazine, and the only publication at Harvard to have preserved its reputation for 103 years, so there are reasons to endure. Plagued especially over the past decade by financial crises, it has managed to survive them all by means of affluent...
Not that there hadn't been some history of scandal. In 1935, a group of editors were charged with obscenity for publishing Henry Miller's story about the usual excesses of Henry Miller. The issue was promptly confiscated, and the editors' pictures appeared in the paper beneath a story about...