'Advccate' Will Publish Anthology Featuring Nine Early Eliot Poems

The Harvard Advocate will publish a centennial anthology in two weeks, containing the greatest works written for the magazine since it was founded in 1866.

Such literary sta'warts as T.S. E'lot '10, E.E. Cummings '15, and Robert Lowell have written pieces which will appear in the book, as well as Theodore Roosevelt '80, Henry Cabot Lodge '23, and Arthur M. Schlesinger '38.

Jonathan Culler '66 who is editing the anthology, and some associates have been reading every old issue of the Advocate and choosing material for the past year. Selections were made with three ideas in mind: to present the best literary works, to present the early writing of men who later became famous, and to present work which was representative of the style of certain eras.

Nine unpublished undergraduate poems by T.S. Eliot are in the anthology. Teddy Roosevelt penned a survey of the upcoming football season when the Advocate was still something of a newspaper.

Since World War II, Culler believe, undergraduate writers have become more sophisticated and less provincial -- they publish in magazines outside the college, clouding the distinction between undergraduate and professional writing.

The last gasp of amateur writing for a college magazine was the Harvard Square sex story genre of the '50's. "Everyone in love at Harvard wrote one of these," Culler said. It usually dealt with the problems of college love, and was set in such familiar locales as the steps of Widenor Library or a room in Eliot House. The best of these -- "Winter Term" by Sallie Bingham -- is in the new anthology.