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Scarcely two months have gone by since the magazine's trustees took the first definite step toward getting the publication back into print with the appointment of a committee of interim editors headed by mild-mannered, pipe-smoking Donald B. Watt, Jr. '47. In the Advocate rooms between Bow and Mt. Auburn Streets, the editors have sorted graduate and undergraduate contributions in an attempt to put together a magazine of "general reader interest" and jolt their charge out of the esoteric mire that drugged circulation down to some 800 copies...
...Watt and his lieutenants are all new to Advocate traditions. They know that out of the unsavory financial and editorial confusion that heralded the Advocate's wartime retirement from the field of undergraduate publications had come a magazine of poems and aesthetics. Their aim, according to Watt, is "to be a Harpers on the College level...
...Watt originally entertained a vision of covering the sporting scene in his magazine but admits defeat at the hands of his co-editors. He could have found precedent to back him up in the early days of Advocate journalism when Frank P. Stearns '67, its first business manager, accompanied the Harvard nine to New York as a combination substitute and reporter...
...were placed on sale at Richardson's book store, and the morning's mail carried the first Advocate to each of the Overseers and every member of the Corporation. When split in faculty opinion forestalled disciplinary action, the publication was allowed to "live or die on its own merits." Watt and his interim committee are putting out their first postwar issue this week in much the same spirit...
...revival of the Advocate provides continuity to a tradition that includes such men as Charles Townsend Copeland '82, Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory, emeritus, George Lyman Kittredge '82, Theodore Roosevelt '80, and Kenneth B. Murdock '16, Francis Lee Higginson Professor of English Literature. Watt and his staff hang their shingle over the door. The magazine that appears tomorrow will bear the same motto. "Dulce est periculum." within its covers, and carry the same seal on its letterhead, the Advocate's traditional representation of Pegasus chained to a book. The College welcomes its oldest publication back to Cambridge...