Word: wakeful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...year after the Advocate went into its wartime hibernation, and ambitious group of Sophomores brought out the first issue of the Harvard Wake. Admittedly overly morbid, the editors tried to raise their standards and called for more student contributions...
...Fourth Wake Improved...
...spite of the improvement in quality, financial troubles delayed the next issue for nearly a year. The fifth Wake, a 90-page number devoted entirely to works and criticism of E. E. Cummings, came out in the spring of 1946. In addition to Cummings, John Dos Passos '16, Theodore Spencer, Wallace Stevens, and Mark Van Doren contributed. Copies of the issue, which sold over 2000 in the U.S. and Europe, are now collectors' items...
...second revival of the Wake came about when Hawkes, a member of the original 1944 staff, returned to College from a stint with the American Field Service and met Lawrence, who had joined the publication after Hawkes had left. With Rogers, they saw the chance to re-publish the Wake as a magazine furnishing a non-commercial outlet for good, unknown writers whose work "has passed the experimental stage...
Beyond making the Wake a post-graduate venture, the editors are considering publishing "a few short novels" next year. A flood of material since the Cummings issue has turned up some excellent work, the editors say, including some pieces too long for inclusion in their magazine...