Word: papered
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...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 of literary value and political interest, found the "going" too hard. The Monthly stood for the best in Harvard. Its editors were ambitious, intellectual, and effective, if at times a trifle exotic. They were able...
...fire; red 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...
Possibly the parodists intended to perpetrate a joke on the College by if such was the case it was stretching things rather far. It is not likely that such care could have been taken to have the satirical paper correspond so closely to the real one had sole purpose of the anonymous authors been to raise a laugh...
...view of the open letter to the Board of Overseers which serves as an editorial, the connection with the paper of the instructors in question might well be cleared up. The purpose of the letter is an entirely worthy one. The unfortunate inference, however, is that somebody has an axe to grind...
Perhaps the most pertinent result of the appearance of the new magazine will be its effect on the Advocate. If its succeeding issues fulfill the promise of the first the older paper will find itself in competition with an energetic rival. This should lead to a renascent enthusiasm and activity on the part of the Advocate of which it is now in great need. There is room in the University for two good magazines. There is not room for a swan and a lame duck...