Word: cullers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...century have had their gestation in the Square. You have to love Harvard to like this book. It strings together 150 selections from the Advocate's first hundred years, most of which lead you to believe that undergraduate writers are either inept thieves or self-conscious bores. Editor Jonathan Culler has attempted to justify each inclusion by fitting it into the Advocate's labored, changing definition of itself or by showing that the piece demonstrates the impact of belles-lettres on Harvard. Only the real chauvinist, the Harvard grad who moved only as far away as Brattle St., could care...
Stephen J. Bergman '66, of Leverett House and Hudson, N.Y., Jonathan D. Culler '66, of Kirkland House and Hamden, Conn., Charles W. Filson '66, of Adams House and Springfield, Ill., William P. Frerking '66, of Quincy House and St. Louis...
Since World War II, Culler believe, undergraduate writers have become more sophisticated and less provincial -- they publish in magazines outside the college, clouding the distinction between undergraduate and professional writing...
...Jonathan Culler '66 who is editing the anthology, and some associates have been reading every old issue of the Advocate and choosing material for the past year. Selections were made with three ideas in mind: to present the best literary works, to present the early writing of men who later became famous, and to present work which was representative of the style of certain eras...
...last gasp of amateur writing for a college magazine was the Harvard Square sex story genre of the '50's. "Everyone in love at Harvard wrote one of these," Culler said. It usually dealt with the problems of college love, and was set in such familiar locales as the steps of Widenor Library or a room in Eliot House. The best of these -- "Winter Term" by Sallie Bingham -- is in the new anthology...