''The Harvard Monthly'' was a literary magazine of

Harvard University Harvard University is a private Ivy League research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Founded in 1636 as Harvard College and named for its first benefactor, the Puritan clergyman John Harvard, it is the oldest institution of high ...

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, beginning October 1885 until suspending publication following the Spring 1917 issue. Formed in the latter months of 1885 by Harvard seniors William Woodward Baldwin, Thomas Parker Sanborn, Alanson B. Houghton,

George Santayana Jorge Agustín Nicolás Ruiz de Santayana y Borrás, known in English as George Santayana (; December 16, 1863 – September 26, 1952), was a Spanish and US-American philosopher, essayist, poet, and novelist. Born in Spain, Santayana was raised ...

, William Morton Fullerton, and George Rice Carpenter, the magazine proposed to afford "...a medium for the strongest and soberest undergraduate thought of the college...". These six men comprised the ''Monthly's'' initial staff, with Houghton as editor, Baldwin as business manager and the others acting as editors. The initial October 1885 issue includes works by Sanborn, Santayana, Houghton, Fullerton the magazine's faculty adviser,

Barrett Wendell Barrett Wendell (August 23, 1855 – February 8, 1921) was an American academic known for a series of textbooks including ''English Composition,'' studies of ''Cotton Mather'' and ''William Shakespeare,'' ''A Literary History of America,'' ''The F ...

, among others. Some of the essays in this issue which may have been felt controversial have no stated author. In regard to this issue, ''

The Harvard Crimson ''The Harvard Crimson'' is the student newspaper of Harvard University and was founded in 1873. Run entirely by Harvard College undergraduates, it served for many years as the only daily newspaper in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Beginning in the f ...

'' observed that "The unique form and general typographical make-up of the new monthly is extremely pleasing; it is quite a departure from the form of any magazine we have seen. The table of contents consists of stories, sketches, criticisms, poems, editorials and book reviews, choice morsels for the most delicate palate. It was announced that a feature of each number would be an article from the pen of some prominent alumnus." Hollis Hall, Harvard University - 080019pv

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The ''Monthly'' ceased publication in 1917, due to issues involving the First World War, and ''

The Harvard Advocate ''The Harvard Advocate'', the art and literary magazine of Harvard College, is the oldest continuously published college art and literary magazine in the United States. The magazine (published then in newspaper format) was founded by Charles S. ...

'', a literary publication of

Harvard College Harvard College is the undergraduate college of Harvard University, an Ivy League research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Founded in 1636, Harvard College is the original school of Harvard University, the oldest institution of higher lea ...

since 1866, became the primary source of essays, fiction, and poetry for the Harvard community.

History

Founding and Subsequent Years

For thirteen years, President Charles William Eliot had been attempting to transform Harvard from a provincially famous institution into a nationally recognized and admired leader in higher education. He believed that to do so, Harvard needed to attract students who came from all over the country, not just from Boston—and not just the wealthy. The academic curriculum needed to cater not just students in the liberal arts, but also ones who saw higher education as a path towards upward mobility, and as a way to pursue non-humanist studies. "The 1880s was in a sense the 'last gasp' of the leisured gentlemen, the last time they would dominate the university's academic and social structure."Miller, Dan, ''Harvard, We Have a Problem: Santayana and the New University'' is on line at What seemed a mass movement toward practicality and specialization that would drain the university of the aestheticism and humanism frustrated the young men who would eventually found the ''Monthly''; each was involved with one or more of the other Harvard literary publications—the ''Lampoon'', the ''Advocate'', and the ''Crimson'', which didn't offer the creative outlet they felt necessary. Toward the end of their junior year, W.W. Baldwin and T.P. Sanborn brainstormed in the latter's room in Grays Hall, proceeding to A.B. Houghton's room in Holyoke and, after gathering W.M. Fullerton and G.R. Carpenter, assembling in Santayana's room in Hollis Hall, where they agreed to move forward with a plan for a true literary magazine. They vowed their work would not bespeak the scrupulous consciousness of

John Bunyan John Bunyan (; baptised 30 November 162831 August 1688) was an English writer and Puritan preacher best remembered as the author of the Christian allegory ''The Pilgrim's Progress,'' which also became an influential literary model. In addition ...

's Puritan Pilgrim, but rather the doubting scrutiny of

William Dean Howells William Dean Howells (; March 1, 1837 – May 11, 1920) was an American realist novelist, literary critic, and playwright, nicknamed "The Dean of American Letters". He was particularly known for his tenure as editor of ''The Atlantic Monthly'', ...

' Silas Lapham who, in Howells’ story, prevails over the empty, hypocritical norms of proper Boston society. Houghton was elected editor-in-chief. "The title, 'Harvard Monthly', was adopted... instead of 'Harvard ''Literary'' Monthly'... lest it might be called the Harvard ''Lit'' and thus bring us up for comparison with Yale's sombre-hued institution."Baldwin, W.W., ''The Founding of the Harvard Monthly'', ''The Harvard Monthly'', Vol.21, October 1895. Harvard Monthly First Page

The new magazine was announced in the ''Crimson'' as being published the third Wednesday of each month from October to July for the price of twenty-five cents. The second issue featured an article by Harvard alumnus,

Franklin Benjamin Sanborn Franklin Benjamin Sanborn (December 15, 1831 – February 24, 1917) was an American journalist, teacher, author, reformer, and abolitionist. Sanborn was a social scientist, and a memorialist of American transcendentalism who wrote early biograp ...

, father of editor Thomas Sanborn, titled ''Harvard in the Struggle for Emancipation.''; The magazine continued to include the works of Harvard staff and prominent graduates including

Philip Gilbert Hamerton Philip Gilbert Hamerton (10 September 1834 – 4 November 1894) was a British artist, art critic and author. He was a keen advocate of contemporary printmaking and most of his writings concern the graphic arts. He was an important theorist ...

Phillips Brooks Phillips Brooks (December 13, 1835January 23, 1893) was an American Episcopal clergyman and author, long the Rector of Boston's Trinity Church and briefly Bishop of Massachusetts. He wrote the lyrics of the Christmas hymn, " O Little Town o ...

Crawford Howell Toy Crawford Howell Toy (23 March 183612 May 1919), American Hebrew scholar, was born in Norfolk, Virginia. He graduated at the University of Virginia in 1856, and studied at the University of Berlin from 1866 to 1868. From 1869 to 1879 he was profess ...

, Albert Bushnell Hart and Andrew Preston Peabody By its second year, the staff of the ''Monthly'' had grown from six to eleven, and included

Bernard Berenson Bernard Berenson (June 26, 1865 – October 6, 1959) was an American art historian specializing in the Renaissance. His book ''The Drawings of the Florentine Painters'' was an international success. His wife Mary is thought to have had a large ...

. The roots of what Santayana would later develop into a full-fledged philosophical disassociation with things American can be found in his undergraduate writings, particularly in those submitted to the ''Monthly'' George Santayana would remain involved with the magazine while a professor at Harvard, submitting material until 1903. On the magazine's second anniversary, the ''Boston Daily Advertiser'' recounted its brief history and proclaimed the magazine was "vastly superior to any other college journal", that the literature was "absolutely and inherently good," and that some articles had even garnered favorable comment from abroad. Santayana Poem 1886

Those who subsequently served the ''Monthly'' include Bernhard Berenson,

William Vaughn Moody William Vaughn Moody (July 8, 1869 – October 17, 1910) was an American dramatist and poet. Moody was author of ''The Great Divide'', first presented under the title of ''The Sabine Woman'' at the Garrick Theatre in Chicago on April 12, 1906. Hi ...

Norman Hapgood Norman Hapgood (March 28, 1868 – April 29, 1937) was an American writer, journalist, editor, and critic, and an American Minister to Denmark. Biography Norman Hapgood was born March 28, 1868 in Chicago, Illinois to Charles Hutchins Hapgood ( ...

, Henry Milner Rideout, Philip Henry Savage,

Trumbull Stickney Joseph Trumbull Stickney (June 20, 1874 – October 11, 1904) was an American classical scholar and poet. Biography He was born in Geneva and spent much of his early life in Europe. He attended Harvard University from 1891, when he became editor ...

, Robert Herrick, John Reed,

Charles Macomb Flandrau Charles Macomb Flandrau (1871–1938), was an American author and essayist. Early life and education Flandrau was born on December 9, 1871 in St. Paul, Minnesota. He was the son of Judge Charles Eugene Flandrau and his second wife Rebecca Blair Fl ...

Pierre de Chaignon la Rose Pierre de Chaignon la Rose (April 23, 1871 – February 21, 1941) was an American heraldist and heraldic artist. Biography Pierre de Chaignon la Rose was born on April 23, 1871, in New York City, New York. His father was an A. F. de Chaignon la ...

, Clifford Herschel Moore, Robert Morss Lovett, Hermann Hagedorn, M.A. DeWolfe Howe, Thomas W. Lamont,''The Cambridge Tribune'' Vol 23, Number 18, July 2, 1910 is available on line a

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Lucien Price Junius Lucien Price (January 6, 1883 – March 30, 1964), who also published under the name Seymour Deming,
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, John Hall Wheelock,

Bliss Carman William Bliss Carman (April 15, 1861 – June 8, 1929) was a Canadian poet who lived most of his life in the United States, where he achieved international fame. He was acclaimed as Canada's poet laureate during his later years. In Canada, Car ...

Edwin Arlington Robinson Edwin Arlington Robinson (December 22, 1869 – April 6, 1935) was an American poet and playwright. Robinson won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry on three occasions and was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature four times. Early life Robin ...

Conrad Aiken Conrad Potter Aiken (August 5, 1889 – August 17, 1973) was an American writer and poet, honored with a Pulitzer Prize and a National Book Award, and was United States Poet Laureate from 1950 to 1952. His published works include poetry, short ...

Joseph Auslander Joseph Auslander (October 11, 1897 – June 22, 1965) was an American poet, anthologist, translator of poems, and novelist. Auslander was appointed the first Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress from 1937 and 1941. Lif ...

Malcolm Cowley Malcolm Cowley (August 24, 1898 – March 27, 1989) was an American writer, editor, historian, poet, and literary critic. His best known works include his first book of poetry, ''Blue Juniata'' (1929), his lyrical memoir, ''Exile's Return ...

Scofield Thayer Scofield Thayer (12 December 1889 in Worcester, Massachusetts – 9 July 1982 in Edgartown) was a wealthy American poet and publisher, best known for his art collection, now at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and as a publisher and editor of the l ...

Robert Hillyer Robert Silliman Hillyer (June 3, 1895 – December 24, 1961) was an American poet and professor of English literature. He won a Pulitzer Prize for poetry in 1934. Early life Hillyer was born in East Orange, New Jersey to an old Connecticut fam ...

Gilbert Seldes Gilbert Vivian Seldes (; January 3, 1893 – September 29, 1970) was an American writer and cultural critic. Seldes served as the editor and drama critic of the seminal modernist magazine ''The Dial'' and hosted the NBC television program '' The ...

John Dos Passos John Roderigo Dos Passos (; January 14, 1896 – September 28, 1970) was an American novelist, most notable for his ''U.S.A.'' trilogy. Born in Chicago, Dos Passos graduated from Harvard College in 1916. He traveled widely as a young man, visit ...

, and

E. E. Cummings Edward Estlin Cummings, who was also known as E. E. Cummings, e. e. cummings and e e cummings (October 14, 1894 - September 3, 1962), was an American poet, painter, essayist, author and playwright. He wrote approximately 2,900 poems, two autobi ...

Demise

''The Harvard Monthly'' ceased publication with Volume 64, in May 1917, with the following words within black bordering: "The editors of the monthly regret that existing circumstances compel the suspension of publication during the immediate future." The "circumstances" involved World War I and a campus gearing-up for war, with passionate disagreements erupting among ''Monthly'' staff members, as described years later by Malcolm Cowley in an on-line biography of his friend, ''Monthly'' editor E.E. Cummings. " ummingstook no part in the debate over preparedness for war, one which shook the country in the winter of 1916-17 and which, as a minor effect, disrupted the board of The Harvard Monthly. Four of the editors were pacifists, the other four were superpatriots, all eight were impractical, and they couldn't agree on what to print. In April 1917, when Congress declared war, The Monthly disappeared from Harvard, but not from memory."Cowley, Malcolm, ''E.E. Cummings: Poet and Painter'', "Notable American Unitarians", is available on line a

/ref> No clear reason for the journal's cessation was provided either by the ''Monthly'' itself or in the ''Crimson'', where the May 5, 1917 issue states, "The present issue f ''The Harvard Monthly''is of peculiar interest as it is the last number of the Monthly to appear before the temporary suspension of publication. This, to whatever "existing circumstances" it may be due, is a great misfortune.''No Timidity in Current Monthly'', ''The Harvard Crimson'', Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, May 5, 1917 is available on line a

/ref> The ''Monthly'' was never resurrected, and the ''Harvard Advocate'' became Harvard's only literary publication, possibly subsuming the sort of material which had differentiated it from its sister-journal, which may have been due to a tradition of being different. ''Monthly'' alumnus

offered the following insight in his biography of E.E. Cummings: "There were two such magazines at Harvard in those days ust prior to WWI The Monthly and The Advocate, and they looked down on each other—-or, to be accurate, they nodded to each other coldly from the facing doors of their respective sanctums on the dusty third floor of the

Harvard Union Harvard Union, now known as the Barker Center and once known as the Freshman Union, is a historic building on Quincy and Harvard Streets in Cambridge, Massachusetts. History The union was designed McKim, Mead & White and built in 1900; it was th ...

. The Monthlies thought that the board of The Advocate, which then appeared fortnightly, was composed of journalists, clubmen, athletes, and disciples of Teddy Roosevelt, a former editor, with not a man of letters among them. The Advocates suspected that the Monthlies were aesthetes (as indeed most of them came to be called), scruffy poets,

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, or worse. It was for The Monthly that Cummings chose to write."

Significance

''The Harvard Monthly'' met the intentions of its founders and within ten years was said to have improved the quality of writing and thereby strengthened the English Department at Harvard. "The ''Monthly'' has always had a close relation to the English department, the growth of which was the direct cause of its appearance, and it furnishes the best record of the literary standards and ambitions of the undergraduates who make English their chief interest. It is the expression of the growth of a special academic tendency towards the study of literary form and of literary and general criticism." Within ten years of its beginning, ''The Monthly'' was known to have published the best literary work done by undergraduates; its series of graduate articles has included many of exceptional value and interest; its influence in the college world has always been in the direction of earnestness and seriousness. Seeking only to reflect "the strongest and soberest undergraduate thought", ''The Monthly'' provided "a medium of communication between students and graduates" which had not existed in any other of Harvard's periodicals. By the magazine's twenty-fifth anniversary, it was described as "proof... of the undergraduate cultivation of creative, critical and persuasive letters that still distinguishes the university...from most other in America." That "proof" may best lie in the fact of ''The Harvard Monthly's'' many graduates, who went on to make significant contributions to the world. Harvard Monthly Suspends Publication

''The Harvard Monthly'' ceased publication in 1917. For more than thirty years, the monthly journal was produced in accordance with the original plans of six enthusiastic young men who brainstormed in George Santayana's room in Hollis Hall: a medium for undergraduate thought, issued monthly from October to July, the significance of which could not be denied. ''The Harvard Crimson'', in reporting the suspension of the ''Monthly'', opined that the journal, "... has filled to a certain extent the important post of Devil's Advocate amid the blatant orthodoxy of undergraduate life... Harvard sorely needed the Monthly. In the world outside it was looked on as one of the proofs of Harvard's difference from other colleges. The existence of such a magazine indicated... a desire to think things through, to reject ready-made opinions for the mere reason that they were ready-made, to hold a little aloof from current lanes of thought. Such a spirit, only too rare in our land of gigantic uniformities, and almost non-existent in our colleges, gave one hope that here at least a leaven was working which would ultimately transform American thought from the flabby courageless thing it is into something new and liberating." In the forward to an autobiography of former ''Monthly'' editor John Hall Wheelock, literary historian Jay B. Hubbell is quoted as saying, "prior to World War I the history of American Literature was the history of Harvard College." ''The Harvard Monthly'' belonged to that time. Dingbat2

Staff

Volume 1: October 1885 to February 1886 *Editor-in-Chief: A. B. Houghton *Business Manager: W.W. Baldwin *Editors: G.R. Carpenter, W.M. Fullerton, W.A. Leahy, T.P. Sanborn, H.S. Sanford, G. Santayana Sorrow and Stillness a poem by T

Volume 2: March 1886 to July 1886 *Editor-in-Chief: G.R. Carpenter *Business Managers: W.W. Baldwin and F.H. Sellers *Editors: W.M. Fullerton, T.P. Sanborn, G. Santayana, G.P. Baker Jr., B. Berenson, H.G. Bruce, W. A. Leahy, H.S. Sanford Volume 3: October 1886 to February 1887 *Editor-in-Chief: G.P. Baker Jr. *Business Manager: F.H. Sellers *Editors: B. Berenson, H.G. Bruce, W.A. Leahy, H.S. Sanford Monthly Staff 1888, Harvard University Archives HUPSF The Harvard Monthly 1

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Volume 5: October 1887 to February 1888 *Editor in Chief: M.A. DeWolfe Howe Jr. *Business Manager: W.D. Bancroft *Editors: H.G. Bruce, R.E. Neil Dodge, W.A. Leahy, H.S. Sanford Jr. Volume 6: March 1888 to July 1888 *Editor-in-Chief: H.S. Sanford Jr. *Business Manager: C.H. Moore *Editors: Herbert Bates, H.G. Bruce, R.E. Neil Dodge, Robert W. Herrick, W.A. Leahy, Charles T. Sempers

Volumes 7-8: October 1888 to February 1889, March 1889 to July 1889 *Editor-in-Chief: R.E. Neil Dodge *Business Manager: Philip S. Abbot *Editors: Herbert Bates,

, Robert Herrick, Hugh McCulloch, Jr., H. T. Parker, Charles T. Sempers Volume 9: October 1889 to February 1890 *Editor-in-Chief: Robert Herrick *Business Managers: Philip S. Abbott, T.W. Lamont *Editors: Herbert Bates, R.E. Neil Dodge,

, Hugh McCulloch, Jr. Volume 10: March 1890 to July 1890 *Editor-in-Chief:

*Business Managers: S.P. Duffield, T.W. Lamont *Editors: Philip S. Abbot, Herbert Bates, R.E. Neil Dodge, H.A. Davis, Robert Herrick, Hugh McCulloch, Jr.,

Volumes 11-12: October 1890 to February 1891, March 1891 to July 1891 *Editor-in-Chief: Hugh McCulloch, Jr. *Business Managers: T.W. Lamont, B.P. Duffield, Frederick Winsor *Editors: Philip S. Abbot, R.E.Neil Dodge, William V. Moody, H.A. Davis, Robert M. Lovett, Horace A. Davis, S.P. Duffield Volumes 13-14: October 1891 to February 1892, March 1892 to July 1892 *Editor-in-Chief: Robert Morss Lovett *Business Managers: T.W. Lamont, Maynard Ladd, Frederick Minsor *Editors: Philip S. Abbot, Samuel P. Duffield,

, Hugh McCulloch, Jr., William V. Moody, Philip H. Savage, Joseph T. Stickney, Henry Ware *Volumes 15-16: October 1892 to July 1893, March 1893 to July 1893 *Editor-in-Chief: Henry Ware *Business Managers: Frederick Winson, Maynard Ladd, William Hapgood *Editors: Robert Morss Lovett, Hugh McCulloch, Jr.,

, John R. Oliver, Edward K. Rand, Pierre La Rose, Philip Henry Savage, Joseph T. Stickney Volume 17: October 1893 to February 1894 *Editor-in-Chief:

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*Business Managers: Maynard Ladd, William P. Hapgood, Chauney G. Carter *Editors: Hugh McCulloch, Jr., Edward K. Rand, Pierre La Rose, Joseph T. Stickney,

Volume 18: March 1894 to July 1894 *Editor-in-Chief: Edward K. Rand *Business Manager: Edwin O. Merrill *Editors: Winfred Thaxter Denison,

, Henry C. Greene, Hugh McCulloch, Jr., John R. Oliver, Pierre La Rose, Joseph T. Stickney Volume 19: October 1894 to February 1895 *Editor-in-Chief: Pierre LaRose *Business Manager: Edwin Godfrey Merrill *Editors: Winfred Thaxter Denison,

, Arthur Stanwood Pier,

Volume 20: March 1895 to July 1895 *Contributors (no masthead present for this collection): Henry Copley Greene,

, Carleton E. Noyes, Archer Robinson, Joseph Potter Cotton Jr., Winfred Thaxter Denison, Philip Jacob Gentner *Robert Palfrey Utter,

, Frederick Street Hoppin Jr., Lewis E. Gates, Arthur Stanwood Pier, Henry Wise Miller,

Daniel Gregory Mason Daniel Gregory Mason (November 20, 1873 – December 4, 1953) was an American composer and music critic. Biography Mason was born in Brookline, Massachusetts. He came from a long line of notable American musicians, including his father Henry Ma ...

, Henry Alexander Phillips, Robert Walcott, Joseph William Sharts Monthly Houghton Mifflin ad

Volume 21: January 1896 to February 1896 *Editor-in-Chief: Winfred Thaxter Denison *Secretary: Henry Alexander Phillips *Business Manager: William Belmont Parker *Editors: Joseph Potter Cotton Jr., Henry Wise Miller, Archer Tyler Robinson Volume 22: March 1896 to July 1896 *Contributors (no masthead present for this collection): Henry Taylor Parker, Henry Alexander Phillips, Arthur Robinson, Frederick Atherton,

, Henry Wise Miller, Eugene A. Zinetti, Robert Steed Dunn,

William Pepperell Montague William Pepperell Montague (11 November 1873 – 1 August 1953) was a philosopher of the New Realist school. Montague stressed the difference between his philosophical peers as adherents of either "objective" and " critical realism". Montague w ...

Jr., P. H. Savage, D. Winter, Beulah Marie Dix, Philip Singleton, Frank C. Hinckley, Arthur Stanwood Pier, Gaillard Thomas Lapsley, Henry Eastman Lower Volume 23: October 1896 to February 1897 *Editor-in-Chief: Henry Alexander Phillips *Business Manager: William Belmont Parker *Editors: Robert Steed Dunn, Henry Wise Miller, Robert Palfrey Utter Volume 24: March 1897 to July 1897 *Editor-in-Chief: Henry Alexander Phillips *Secretary: Robert Steed Dunn *Business Manager: William Belmont Parker *Editors: Henry Wise Miller, E.W.Sutton Pickhardt, Alfred Zantzinger Reed, Henry Milner Rideout, Robert Palfrey Utter, S.R. Wrightington Harvard Monthly books received

Volume 25: October 1897 to February 1898 *Contributors (no masthead present for this collection):

, Daniel Gregory, Robert Steed Dunn, P.H. Savage, William Belmont Parker, E.W.Sutton Pickhardt, Henry Milner Rideout, Ira N. Hollis, Percy W. Long, Henry Thew Stephenson *William Lee Raymond, Jarvis Kelley, Max Savage, Pierre La Rose,

, Henry Copley Green, Arthur Stanwood Pier, Philip Greenleaf Carleton, Fred C. Gratwick,

, C.B. Newton, Lewis D. Humphrey Volume 26: March 1898 to July 1898 *Editor-in-Chief: Robert Steed Dunn *Secretary: Henry Milner Rideout *Business Manager: Cameron Blaikie *Editors: Walter Conrad Arensberg, Raynal Cawthorne Bolling, Philip Greenleaf Carleton, James Grant Forbes, Jarvis Keiley, E.W. Sutton Pickhardt, William Lee Raymond, Maxwell Sands Savage, Robert Palfrey Utter Volumes 27-28: October 1898 to February 1899, March 1899 to July 1899 *Editor-in-Chief: Henry Milner Rideout *Business Manager: James A. Ballentine *Editors: Walter Conrad Arensberg, Raynal Cawthrone Bolling, Philip Greenleaf Carleton, James Grant Forbes, Jarvis Keiley, Philip Lee Miller, William Morrow, William Lee Raymond, Maxwell Sands Savage, Jarvis Keiley Monthly Staff 1900, Harvard University Archives HSUPF The Harvard Monthly 2

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Volumes 29-30: October 1899 to February 1900, March 1900 to July 1900 *Editor-in-Chief: William Morrow *Business Manager: Henry J. Winslow *Editors: Walter Conrad Arensberg, Raynal Cawthorne Bolling, James Grant Forbes, William Jones, Gilbert Holland Montague Walter Arensberg poem Monthly vol 29

Volume 31: October 1900 to February 1901 *Contributors (no masthead present for this collection):

, John LaFarge, Jr., G.H. Montague, James Grant Forbes *George C. Hirst, William Morrow, Joseph Trumbull Stickney, Rowland Thomas, James Platt White, R.M. Green, Albert Heminway Michelson *E.A. Robinson, Lauriston Ward, L.M. Crosbie,

, Barrett Wendell Jr., R.M. Green, F.W.Reynolds, Bradford K. Daniels Volume 32: March 1901 to July 1901 *Editor-in-Chief: James Grant Forbes *Business Manager: Charles Ernest Reck *Assistant Business manager: Herbert Spencer Martin *Editors: John LaFarge, Jr., Robert Montraville Green, Lauriston Ward, Benjamin B. Lee, Gilbert Holland Montague, Hoyt Landon Warner Monthly staff 1902,Harvard University Archives, HUPSF The Monthly (3)

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Volumes 33-34: October 1901 to February 1902, March 1902 to July 1902 *Editor-in-Chief: Robert Montraville Green *Business Manager: Herbert Spencer Martin *Assistant Business Managers: Alfred Edward Ells, Arthur Linwood Thayer, Merwin Kimball Hart *Editors: Laurence Murray Crosbie, George Clarkson Hirst, Henry Wyman Holmes, Harold Stanley Pollard, Howard Ruggles Van Law, Lauriston Ward, Hoyt Landon Warner, Barrett Wendell Jr., Samuel Alfred Welldon Volume 35: October 1902 to February 1903 *Editor-in-Chief: Lauriston Ward *Business Manager: Merwin Kimball Hart *Editors: Vincent Van Marter Beede, William Harris Laird Bell, Ernest Bernbaum, Oscar James Campbell Jr., Laurence Murray Crosbie, Henry Wyman Holmes, Hoyt Landon Warner, Samuel Alfred Welldon Volume 36: March 1903 to July 1903 *Editor-in-Chief: Hoyt Landon Warner *Business Manaager: Merwin Kimball Hart *Assistant Business Managers: Enoch Lewis Burnham, Richard Henry Miller *Editors: Vincent Van Marter Beede, William Harris Laird Bell, Ernest Bernbaum, John Victor Judah Brandon, Oscar James Campbell Jr., Laurence Murray Crosbie, Henry Wyman Holmes, Lauriston Ward, Samuel Alfred Welldon C Sturgis poem

Volumes 37- 38: October 1903 to February 1904, March 1904 to July 1904 *Editor-in-Chief: William Harris Laird Bell *Business Manager: Enoch Lewis Burnham *Assistant Business Managers: Richard Henry Miller, Leonard Hastings Schoff, Maurice Wertheim, Charles Eliot Ware Jr. *Editors: Oric Bates, Vincent Van Marter Beede, Henry Adams Bellows, Laurence Murray Crosbie, Paul Pembroke Crosbie, Hermann Hagedorn Jr., Swinburne Hale, Charles Tripp Ryder, Richard Clipston Sturgis Jr., Samuel Alfred Welldon Volumes 39-40: March 1905 to July 1905, October 1904 to February 1905 *Editor-in-Chief: Swinburne Hale, 1905 *Secretary: Hermann Hagedorn Jr., 1907 *Business Manager: Maurice Wertheim, 1906 *Assistant Business Managers: Richard Henry Miller, 1905, Robert Faulkner Putnam, 1905, Alfred Phelps Crum, 1906, George Andrews Moriarty, Jr., 1906, Charles Eliot Ware Jr., 1906 *Editors: Oric Bates, 1905, Chester Holbrook Brown, 1905, Paul Pembroke Crosbie, 1905, Richard Clipston Sturgis Jr., 1905, Henry Adams Bellows, 1906, Charles Tripp Ryder, 1906, Fredrick Drew Webster, 1906, Junius Lucien Price, 1907 Hermann Hegedorn poem

Volumes 41-42: October 1905 to February 1906, March 1906 to July 1906 *Editor-in Chief: Henry Adams Bellows *Secretary: Maurice Wertheim *Business Manager: Charles Eliot Ware Jr. *Assistant Business Managers: Alfred Phelps Crum, George Andrews Moriarity Jr., Oliver Colt Wagstaff, William Francis Low Jr., Rush Richard Sloane, John William Baker *Editors: Charles Tripp Ryder, Frederick Drew Webster, Hermann Hagedorn, Junius Lucien Price, Edward Royce, Ralph Montgomery Arkush, John Hall Wheelock Volumes 43-44: October 1906 to February 1907, March 1907 to July 1907 *Contributors (no masthead present for this collection): Hermann Hagedorn Jr., John Hall Wheelock, Robert Emmons Rogers, Ralph Montgomery Arkush, Henry Adams Bellows, Edward Eyre Hunt * Willard Huntington Wright, William Leavitt Stoddard, Charles Henry Dickerman, Rudolph Altrocchi, Richard John Walsh, Herbert Ellsworth Cory, Harold Wilmerding Bell * Edward Brewster Sheldon, Reginald Lindsey Sweet,

Lucien Price Junius Lucien Price (January 6, 1883 – March 30, 1964), who also published under the name Seymour Deming,
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, James Thayer Addison,

Van Wyck Brooks Van Wyck Brooks (February 16, 1886 in Plainfield, New Jersey – May 2, 1963 in Bridgewater, Connecticut) was an American literary critic, biographer, and historian. Biography Brooks graduated from Harvard University in 1908. As a student ...

, Allan Davis, Gerald Abbot Seabury *Charles Wharton Stork, David Carb,

Lee Simonson Lee Simonson (June 26, 1888, New York City – January 23, 1967, Yonkers) was an American architect painter, stage setting designer. He acted as a stage set designer for the Washington Square Players (1915–1917). When it became the Theatre G ...

, Edward Gilman Curtis, Alexander Forbes, Charles Edward Whitmore, Guy Emerson, Paul Ainslee Anderson,

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