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...PEGASUS PULLS A HACK ? Berton Braley?Minton, Batch...
Officers of the Harvard Advocate were announced yesterday. Hugh M. Wade '35 was elected president; Lyman A. S. McCabe '35, secretary, Oscar L. Barber '35, pegasus Philip D. Wilkinson '35, business manager; Henry B. White '35, treasurer; and George L. Haskins '35, circulation manager. Four new members were elected to the magazine: James L. LeB. Boyle '36 and John Cromwell '36 to the literary board; Robert S. Chafee '36 and Gerard J. Piel '37 to the business board...
...PEGASUS' PERCH: Next to the Ibis Nest. Just one of those places three flights up where you can still see the Village Crowd. Clientele rather stiff and formal...
...licentiousness of Byron and Shelley, and in later years was said to have hurled a copy of Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass into the fire. But he was soon to pipe a fiercer tune. Sacrificing his personal ambition to the cause of Liberty, he "knocked Pegasus on the head, as a tanner does his bark-mill donkey, when he is past service," and at 25 became an Abolitionist. Instead of eulogies from the critics he got rotten eggs and catcalls, more than once had to drop his dignity and take to his heels. Of his anti-slavery poems...
...announced: "It is not likely that I shall ever be impelled to write much more. I can no longer expect to be revisited by the continuous excitement under which ... I wrote . . . nor indeed could I well sustain it if it came." He has had two rides on Pegasus; he wants no more. This abrupt reverence would be a rare phenomenon in any day. Anything Poet Housman had to say would carry authority to a multitude of readers. Few years ago, in answer to a U. S. request for a definition of poetry, he replied that he "could no more define...