"The Old Lady in Brown"

Brave doings are toward under the elms of Yale campus, and if the signs and portents deceive not the sons of Elihu will witness a rare battle of books during the rest of the college year.

Last year the newly inaugurated "Harkness Hoot" set the college, and for that matter all Yale, circles by the ears with its plausible and swinging attacks on everything from the university architects to the sacred institution of Tap Day. "The Hoot" was edited by one of Yale's brightest of bright young men, Mr. William Harlan Hale, who, since his graduation has kept his by-line alive in periodicals of greater scope and pretentions, but who, to accomplish his aim, had resigned from the editorial board of the ancient. "Yale Literary Magazine," taking a companion or so with him.

Now, with all the traditional fury of a woman scorned, "The Old Lady in Brown," as the "Lit" is locally known, has staged a comeback. Already honored as the oldest monthly magazine in America and popularly reputed to be the only American college periodical on file in the British Museum, the "Lit," under the editorship of Mr. George Heard Hamilton, one of the faithful in the face of Mr. Hale's shameful desertion, is making what promises to be a successful appeal for her former prestige. "The Old Lady in Brown" has bobbed her hair, enlisted the services of a typographical Patou in beautifying her person and has appeared in a brand new and handsome format. In addition to this the editorial content of the issue evidences a vitality and sanity which will make "The Hoot" look to its bays and laurels. The New York Herald-Tribune