SENSE AND SENSIBILITIES

When the reviewer of the current Advocate says of that magazine that it "makes no attempt to amaze the reader with its culture" he is making a low bow in the direction of the stables of Pegasus. The insinuation, obviously enough is to the effect that in spite of Rockwell Kent and a highly developed aesthetic complex the Hound and Horn has yet to surpass the oldest of college publications.

The reviewer's attitude is correct. In giving the impression of permanence and of unruffled solidity not, it may be said, density the Advocate is acting not only as a vehicle for undergraduate expression but also as a proof of general undergraduate sanity. Under the present board, which is continuing the trend of the boards of the last two years, the magazine is neither lush nor derivative of the worst of Greenwich village.

On the other hand, the more radical and "modern" type of young writer should not necessarily be deprived of an outlet for what may sometimes seem his hectic enough wares. It is possible that, as Mr. Edmonds suggests, the Hound and Born will die when those men now running the publication have lost interest in it If that should be the case it is to be hoped that another journal of similar nature will be born to take its place. The Advocate, if it pursues its present policy of a liberal conservatism, will ably care for the less volatile aspirants to literary fame and moreover its foundations are too ancient and secure to be shaken by whims and caprices. With the present arrangement the publications outlook at Harvard is balanced to an unhoped for degree of nicety.