The Harvard Advocate

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Harvard Advocate
Harvard Advocate building - IMG 1784.JPG
21 South Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts,
headquarters of The Harvard Advocate
EstablishedMay 11, 1866; 155 years ago (1866-05-11)[1]
FoundersCharles S. Gage
William G. Peckham
TypeQuarterly magazine
HeadquartersThe Harvard Advocate Building
21 South Street,
Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
FieldsArt, fiction, culture, humor
Websitewww.theharvardadvocate.com

The Harvard Advocate, the art and literary magazine of Harvard College, is the oldest continuously published college art and literary magazine in the United States. The magazine (published then in newspaper format) was founded by Charles S. Gage and William G. Peckham in 1866 and, except for a hiatus during the last years of World War II, has published continuously since then. In 1916, The New York Times published a commemoration of the Advocate's fiftieth anniversary.[2] Fifty years after that, Donald Hall wrote in The New York Times Book Review that "In the world of the college – where every generation is born, grows old and dies in four years – it is rare for an institution to survive a decade, much less a century. Yet the Harvard Advocate, the venerable undergraduate literary magazine, celebrated its centennial this month."[3] Its current offices are a two-story wood-frame house at 21 South Street, near Harvard Square and the University campus.

Today, the Harvard Advocate publishes quarterly. Its mission is to "publish the best art, fiction, poetry and prose the Harvard undergraduate community has to offer."[4] It also accepts submissions from professional writers and artists beyond the Harvard community.

History[]

Founding and early years[]

Harvard Advocate logo

When the Advocate was founded, it adopted the motto Dulce est Periculum (Danger is Sweet) which had been used by an earlier Harvard newspaper, the Collegian. The magazine originally avoided controversial topics, lest it be shut down by university authorities; by the time the editors were making the then-radical demand for coeducation at Harvard, the magazine had attracted the support of James Russell Lowell and Oliver Wendell Holmes, and its life was less precarious.

The founding in 1873 of The Harvard Crimson newspaper (originally the Magenta), and in 1876, of the Harvard Lampoon humor magazine, led the Advocate by the 1880s to devote itself to essays, fiction, and poetry.

Over the years, the undergraduate editors of and contributors to the Advocate have gone on to later fame, literary and otherwise. Theodore Roosevelt edited the magazine in 1880. Edwin Arlington Robinson, Wallace Stevens, E. E. Cummings, and T. S. Eliot all published their undergraduate poetry in the Advocate. Before World War II, undergraduates who worked on the Advocate included Malcolm Cowley, James Agee, Robert Fitzgerald, Leonard Bernstein, James Laughlin (who got into trouble with local police for publishing a racy story by Henry Miller) and Norman Mailer.

Post World War II[]

The Advocate suspended publication during the years of World War II, and resumed publication with its April 1947 issue. Editors after the war included Daniel Ellsberg. The post-war Advocate published undergraduate and/or graduate work by Richard Wilbur, Robert Bly, John Ashbery, Donald Hall, Frank O'Hara, John Hawkes, Harold Brodkey, Kenneth Koch and Jonathan Kozol as well as illustrations by Edward Gorey. Contributors from outside Harvard during this time included Ezra Pound, William Carlos Williams, and Archibald MacLeish.

Other contributors after World War II included Adrienne Rich (the first woman to publish regularly in the magazine), Howard Nemerov, Marianne Moore, Robert Lowell, Tom Wolfe, James Atlas, and Sallie Bingham.

Some recent alumni of note include novelists Louis Begley, Peter Gadol, Lev Grossman, Benjamin Kunkel, and Francine Prose, poets Carl Phillips and Frederick Seidel, biographer and critic Jean Strouse, journalists Elif Batuman and Timothy Noah, literary scholar Peter Brooks, editors Jonathan Galassi and Susan Morrison, businessmen Steve Ballmer and Thomas A. Stewart, filmmaker Terrence Malick, and writer and video game developer Austin Grossman.

First Flowering: The Best of the Harvard Advocate, 1866–1976, an anthology of selections from the magazine edited by Richard Smoley, was published by Addison-Wesley in 1977. In 1986, The Harvard Advocate Anniversary Anthology was published in conjunction with the 120th year of the magazine's publication and Harvard's 350th anniversary. The anthology reproduced actual pages and artwork published in the magazine, introducing each literary era with a brief historical overview.

The Advocate received a degree of national press attention following a controversial 2000 interview with writer Dave Eggers.[5][6][7]

Notable past members[]

Academics and criticism[]

  • Svetlana Alpers, art historian, critic and professor at University of California at Berkeley[8]
  • Elif Batuman, author, academic, critic[8]
  • Amy Boesky, writer, professor of English at Boston College[8]
  • Van Wyck Brooks, literary critic[9]
  • John Mason Brown, drama critic, author[10]
  • Richard Bulliet, professor of history at Columbia University[8]
  • Stephanie Burt, literary critic, poet, professor at Harvard University[8]
  • Charles Townsend Copeland, Harvard professor of English literature[11]
  • Holland Cotter, art critic with The New York Times, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Criticism[8]
  • Malcolm Cowley, poet, literary critic, editor at The New Republic[12]
  • Jonathan Culler, literary critic, professor of English at Cornell University[8]
  • Thomas F. Glick, professor of history at Boston University[8]
  • Mark Greif, critic, co-founder of the literary journal n+1[8]
  • Allen Grossman, poet, critic, professor of humanities at The Johns Hopkins University[8]
  • Lev Grossman, novelist, journalist, book critic for Time Magazine[8]
  • Rachel Hadas, poet, professor of English at Rutgers University[8]
  • Leslie Kirwan, government official, Harvard Dean for Finance and Administration[8]
  • George Lyman Kittredge, literary critic, Harvard professor of English literature[13]
  • Susan Manning, dance historian, professor of English and theatre at Northwestern University[8]
  • James Matisoff, professor of linguistics, UC Berkeley[8]
  • Margaret Mills, folklorist, professor of Near Eastern languages and cultures at Ohio State University[8]
  • Christopher Minkowski, professor of Sanskrit at the University of Oxford[8]
  • Stephen Minot, novelist[8]
  • William Vaughn Moody, literary critic, Harvard English professor[14]
  • Laurie L. Patton, author, poet, dean of Arts and Sciences and professor of religion at Duke University[8]
  • Harriet Ritvo, historian, professor of history at Massachusetts Institute of Technology[8]
  • Kenji Yoshino, professor of constitutional law at New York University[8]
  • Arthur Waldron, professor of international relations at the University of Pennsylvania[8]

Art, architecture, and engineering[]

  • Miles Coolidge, photographer, art educator[8]
  • Ellen Harvey, visual artist[8]
  • Antoinette LaFarge, artist, writer, and professor of art at the University of California, Irvine[8]
  • Peter Soriano, artist and sculptor[8]

Business and philanthropy[]

  • Steve Ballmer, businessman, former CEO of Microsoft[8]
  • Jonathan Galassi, president and publisher of Farrar, Straus and Giroux[8]
  • Thomas W. Lamont, financier and philanthropist[15]
  • Michael Lynton, businessman, current CEO of Sony Pictures Entertainment[8]
  • Jeffrey Rayport, consultant author, businessman[8]
  • Andrew Wylie, literary agent, founder of The Wylie Agency[8]

Editing and translation[]

  • Witter Bynner, poet, translator[16]
  • John Keene, writer and translator[8]
  • Maxwell Perkins, editor for Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald and Thomas Wolfe[17]
  • Richard Sieburth, translator, essayist, editor, professor of French and comparative literature at New York University[8]
  • Peter Theroux, translator[8]

Fiction[]

  • Conrad Aiken, novelist and poet[18]
  • Emily Barton, novelist, critic, professor of English at Smith College[8]
  • William Bayer, novelist, screenwriter[8]
  • Louis Begley, novelist[8]
  • Caleb Crain, novelist and critic[8]
  • Nicholas Delbanco, novelist, professor at Bennington College[8]
  • Sean Desmond, writer of Adams Fall, the basis for the 2002 film Abandon[8]
  • Nell Freudenberger, novelist, travel writer[8]
  • Peter Gadol, novelist[8]
  • Allegra Goodman, novelist[8]
  • Chad Harbach, novelist, co-founder of literary journal n+1[8]
  • Julie Hilden, novelist and lawyer[8]
  • Ann Hodgman, author of children's books[8]
  • Sara Houghteling, novelist and educator[8]
  • Angela Hur, novelist[8]
  • Benjamin Kunkel, novelist, co-founder of literary journal n+1[8]
  • Oliver LaFarge, writer, anthropologist, Pulitzer prize winner[19]
  • Norman Mailer, writer[8]
  • Francine Prose, writer[8]

Film, theater, television, and entertainment[]

Journalism and non-fiction writing[]

Law and politics[]

  • Daniel Baer, United States Ambassador for the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe[8]
  • Thomas C. Foley, American diplomat, businessman[8]
  • Learned Hand, judicial philosopher, judge in the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit[8]
  • Todd M. Hughes, United States Circuit Judge[8]
  • Peter Jaszi, author, expert on copyright law[8]
  • Peter Junger, internet activist[8]
  • Grover Norquist, conservative political advocate[8]
  • Theodore Roosevelt, President of the United States[8]
  • Barbara Underwood, New York Solicitor General[8]
  • Charles Proctor Sifton, United States federal judge[8]
  • Kenji Yoshino, Chief Justice Earl Warren Professor of Constitutional Law at New York University[8]

Poetry[]

Science, technology, medicine, and mathematics[]

  • Jordan Ellenberg, mathematician, professor at University of Wisconsin–Madison[8]
  • Sarah Blaffer Hrdy, anthropologist and primatologist[8]
  • Edward Hallowell, psychiatrist and author[8]
  • Wendell Lim, professor of cellular and molecular pharmacology at University of California, San Francisco[8]
  • Seth Lloyd, professor of mechanical engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology[8]
  • James Propp, professor of mathematics at University of Massachusetts Lowell[8]

Past presidents[8][]

See also[]

References[]

  1. ^ "The Harvard Advocate - Google Books". Google Books. 1911. Retrieved 2016-07-01.
  2. ^ "Harvard Advocate Has Its Fiftieth Anniversary; Celebration This Week Will Be Attended by One of the Founders and Many Former Editors; Theodore Roosevelt on the Board". The New York Times. May 7, 1916. Retrieved May 14, 2014.
  3. ^ Hall, Donald (May 16, 1966). "Speaking of Books:The Harvard Advocate". The New York Times Book Review. Retrieved May 14, 2014.
  4. ^ "The Harvard Advocate". www.theharvardadvocate.com.
  5. ^ Gladwell, Malcolm (December 10, 2013). "Being Nice Isn't Really So Awful" – via www.newyorker.com.
  6. ^ Garner, Dwight (August 15, 2012). "A Critic's Case for Critics Who Are Actually Critical" – via NYTimes.com.
  7. ^ Kearney, Ryan (December 11, 2013). "Malcolm Gladwell Thinks We Are All Laughing to Our Deaths" – via The New Republic.
  8. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z aa ab ac ad ae af ag ah ai aj ak al am an ao ap aq ar as at au av aw ax ay az ba bb bc bd be bf bg bh bi bj bk bl bm bn bo bp bq br bs bt bu bv bw bx by bz ca cb cc cd ce cf cg ch ci cj ck cl cm cn co cp cq cr cs ct cu cv cw cx cy cz da db dc dd de df dg dh di dj dk dl dm dn do dp Harvard Advocate Archives, 21 South Street, Cambridge MA. Includes copies of all past issues, with mastheads listing memberships.
  9. ^ Hall, Donald, ed. (1950). Harvard Advocate Anthology. New York: Twayne Publishers, Inc. p. 87.
  10. ^ (Hall 1950, p. 169)
  11. ^ (Hall 1950, p. 44)
  12. ^ a b (Hall 1950, p. 104)
  13. ^ (Hall 1950, p. 39)
  14. ^ (Hall 1950, p. 57)
  15. ^ (Hall 1950, p. 50)
  16. ^ (Hall 1950, p. 68)
  17. ^ (Hall 1950, p. 77)
  18. ^ (Hall 1950, p. 115)
  19. ^ (Hall 1950, p. 177)
  20. ^ (Hall 1950, p. 272)
  21. ^ (Hall 1950, p. 59)
  22. ^ (Hall 1950, p. 84)
  23. ^ (Hall 1950, p. 98)
  24. ^ (Hall 1950, p. 113)
  25. ^ (Hall 1950, p. 135)
  26. ^ (Hall 1950, p. 75)
  27. ^ (Hall 1950, p. 147)
  28. ^ (Hall 1950, p. 53)
  29. ^ (Hall 1950, p. 60)
  30. ^ (Hall 1950, p. 93)
  31. ^ (Hall 1950, p. 156)

External links[]

Retrieved from ""