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Mr. F. L. Allen '12, secretary to the Corporation at the University since 1919, has been appointed literary adviser of the publishing house of Harper and Brothers, and will leave the University at the close of the College year in June to take up his new editorial duties in New York. His successor has not yet been appointed.
While an undergraduate at the University, he was a literary editor of the Advocate, "Ibis" of the Lampoon, and winner of the Lloyd McKim Garrison Prize for a poem entitled "Tripoli". He remained at the University two years after graduation as an assistant in English.
Mr. Allen left the University in 1914 to become assistant editor of the Atlantic Monthly. In 1916 he was appointed managing editor of the Century Magazine. Upon our entering the War he devoted himself to war publicity work, holding in turn the positions of publicity officer of the Boston Committee of Public Safety, publicity officer of the State Councils section of the Council of National Defense, and assistant director of the Field Division of the Council of National Defense.
Mr. Allen is the author of many articles, stories, and essays; and during the past years has contributed frequently to Harper's.
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