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Dates: during 1910-1919
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This month marked the fiftieth anniversary of the Harvard Advocate. Besides this, however, the month marked the first time a University undergraduate publication has put behind it a half-century of unbroken existence, a fact truly remarkable in consideration of the vicissitudes of college journalism. The paper has outlived a dozen college generations, and in its lifetime has had on its board many now eminent poets and prose writers...
...establish and confirm a friendship between the student and themselves"; it attacked with keen satire compulsory church attendance on Sunday and the system of compulsory chapel. After its third issue the Collegian was suppressed by the Faculty, and the editors were forbidden under pain of expulsion to publish any paper whatsoever...
Suppressed Paper Changes Name...
...Advocate was issued. It was the Collegian under another name. The names of the editors did not appear, but the three Junior editors of the Collegian were summoned before the Faculty. There and in the pages of the Advocate the right of the students to publish a paper which should express undergraduate opinion, even when that opinion differed radically from the views of the Faculty, was strongly and successfully asserted. The counsel of the more liberal members of the Faculty prevailed; the edict of expulsion was not enforced; and the Advocate was not suppressed. The founding of the Advocate...
...Advocate (which in March, 1869, became the Harvard Advocate) has been in pleasant contrast to its troubled beginning. The friendly relations between the editors and the Faculty is shown by the attendance of many of the distinguished members of that body as guests at the annual dinners of the paper. Financially the publication has led a varied life, but when there has been a sufficient balance in the treasury, gifts have been made to the College Library--$200 in 1869, $100 in 1870, $200 in 1873--and to the University boat club, as in 1875; literary prizes have been awarded...