3 Ex-Advocate Editors Begin New Magazine

A new Harvard magazine appeared in the offing last night as a splinter group of three men from the Advocate laid plans for publication "by the Yale game."

The three--A. Chase Shafer '51, William E. Wiggin '50, and Noris W. Darrell '51--resigned from the Advocate last Thursday night. The action culminated a year of friction within the magazine, raging around the question of "artiness."

Shafer's group, along with several more Advocate editors, had been fighting for a more down-to-earth approach, while others--particularly the present pro-tem President Lloyd S. Gilmour '51 and Pegasus Donald A. Hall '51--had defended the Advocate's policy of running short stories, criticism, and poetry, as well as articles.

Election Clash

The issue came to a head Thursday when the board met to elect a new president to succeed Gilmour, who is resigning because of a heavy work schedule. At that time Shafer's supporters claimed a majority of the Advocate's 18 editors, although not the 75 percent required by the magazine's constitution.

But no election took place, because the whole board of editors was not present. Instead Shafer, Wiggin, and Darrell resigned.

The three plan to call their new magazine either "The Moon," or "The Lyre and Lute." "It will cost about 15 cents and resemble Punch a great deal," said Wiggin last night. "We aim to get away from the esoteric and the arty," he summarized.