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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Harvard, as regards undergraduate effort, is badly in need of re-vivification? For several years the Advocate has consistently failed to live up to its splendid traditions and unequalled opportunities. The shades of Aiken, Van Wyck Brooks, Sheldon, Biggers, Hagedorn, Ficke, and others, have hovered in vain. At their best we have had only dilettantism; at their worst puerility; and throughout this period of decadence a continual subservience to the vapid social and political aims of the editors. And by some irony of Fate this paper has lived when the Monthly, which only a few years ago was publishing work...
...magazines were sticking out of everybody's pockets on Wednesday afternoon. But the attempted blow proved a boomerang. For every copy of the parody sold,--the figure is said to approach 1,500,--a copy of the real magazine was also sold. The satirists gave the true paper the best possible free advertising and undoubtedly doubled if not trebled the circulation of the first number...
...layer within layer,--all distinct and complete. The peasants, the bureaucracy, the poet, the dullard, the maniac, the woman are almost ocularly visible, lightened a bit specially by the irony of title and touch, but real as they must be in their local habitation. "Patriots' All" is the best story I have read in any magazine in months...
...College Bestiary" should be a vade mecum for every underclassman. It is an accumulation of wisdom, sorted, labelled, illuminated, and, best of all, tucked away in an idiom that by its vigor and raciness will disarm even those who would like to shoot a preacher at sight. Wherever there is a saving grace of ambition in a student; these "characters" of college types and their glosses will be useful...
...further criticism which should be made is that, although the business editors admit the active support of certain members of the English Department, no mention of this fact is made in the Magazine. Such support is a big step forward in making it possible for the best works handed in in English compostion courses to be dug up from their repositories and given to the public. In this way much material that would otherwise die a natural death can be utilized. But it seems only right that this fact be brought out so that the erroneous impression that...