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Advocate alumni have found time, however, to do more in a literary way than the titles above would indicate. Among their ranks are not only Eliot, Aiken, and DeVoto, but George Lyman Kittredge, Charles Townsend Copeland, Edwin Arlington Robinson, Wallace Stevens, Van Wyck Brooks, e.e. cummings, Robert Hillyer, Malcolm Cowley, and James Laughlin. In the dramatic line, John Mason Brown, Lincoln Kirstein, and Leonard Bernstein were Advocateers. A few have even become political luminaries: Teddy and F.D. Roosevelt, as well as A.M. Schlesinger, Jr. Such a list is certainly a telling justification for the Advocate's existence. That the alumni...
Throughout the twenties the Advocate held its sway in undergraduate literature, with such men as T.S. Eliot and Conrad Aiken figuring notably in its ranks. In the thirties, however, as the Advocate's concerns became increasingly political, there was another burst of dissension, and Lincoln Kirstein formed Hound and Horn, a short-lived critical review. Another magazine, The Critic, succumbed in 1934, when it voted to merge with the Advocate...
...which are designed, of course, to pluck the purse-strings of old grads. Occasionally in the past graduates have been asked to contribute to Graduate Issues. One of these contained such gems as "Sitting A Little Apprehensively on the World" by Bernard De Voto, "All, All Wasted" by Conrad Aiken, and "Fools Trespass When Angels Keep Off the Grass," by Thomas W. Slocum...
...John M. Maguire, college marshal, will lead the officers and trustees of the college. Mrs. Henry D. Aiken is marshal for graduate students, and Louise Petrovsky is marshal for members of the Management Training Program...
...Conrad Aiken '11 humbly remarked that "the experience of being taught by him is one of the most starting and vivifying and alarming and altogether unforgettable adventures that can possibly befall...