Word: hillyer
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Lampoon announced last night the election of the following editors to the board: Literary, Joseph Alger, Jr., '22, of Brockton, and Hillyer Blake Brown '21 of San Francisco, Cal.; Drawing, Nathaniel Choate '22 of Framingham Centre; Business, Ambrose Ely Chambers '21, of New York, N. Y.; Josiah Noel Macy '22 of Scarborough-on-Hudson, N. Y.; James Higginson Manning '21 of Dedham; Arthur Boylston Nichols, Jr., '21, of Cambridge, and Clarence Clargle Ryan '20 of Coggleskill...
...Dead Leaves," by Mr. Auslander, is a charmingly graceful bit of verse, while Mr. Cowley's clever "Nantasket" and Mr. Hillyer's "Interlude" are also praiseworthy. "The Brief Case," a page humorously setting forth many current doings, is a happy addition to the magazine. From the first editorial to the last book review interest but seldom lags, and with the increased incentive of prizes to be given for the best contributions, the Advocate seems started on a year that will be worthy of the proudest traditions of its past...
...first meeting of the Harvard Poetry Society, held in the Advocate Sanctum Monday evening, the following officers were elected: President, Robert Hillyer '17; Secretary, James G. King...
...authors to Professor Babbitt's essay on that phase of literary endeavor. One of the stories was interesting only because it was about Russia; the other a clumsy attempt at whimsicality mingled with a certain amount of unredeemed lubricity. The poems suffer in comparison with the work of Hillyer and Damon. The one essay contained much obvious truth, but seemed over weighted by verbosity, pedantry, and didacticism. The editorial page which failed to state the ambitions, purposes, and ideals of the magazine, presented a farrago of misplaced propaganda and flippancy. The theatrical page brought out some interesting points in atrocious...
...total, at any rate partial. Before that, it was in the hands of poets and became a sort of serial anthology. With much work that was of course mediocre, it also printed a good deal of very exceptional verse by such poets as S. Foster Damon, Robert Hillyer, William Norris, and B. Preston Clark. This was perhaps one of the Advocate's golden ages. But in general, undergraduate writers of verse are better than undergraduate writers of prose, and perhaps always will be; and for that reason the current issue of the Advocate is all the more remarkable...