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, is the oldest continuously published college art and literary magazine in the

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. The magazine (published then in

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format) was founded by Charles S. Gage and William G. Peckham in 1866 and, except for a hiatus during the last years of

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, has published continuously since then. In 1916, ''

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'' published a commemoration of the ''Advocates fiftieth anniversary. Fifty years after that, Donald Hall wrote in ''

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'' that "In the world of the college – where every generation is born, grows old and dies in four years – it is rare for an institution to survive a decade, much less a century. Yet the Harvard Advocate, the venerable undergraduate literary magazine, celebrated its centennial this month." Its current offices are a two-story wood-frame house at 21 South Street, near Harvard Square and the University campus. Today, the ''Harvard Advocate'' publishes quarterly. Its mission is to "publish the best art, fiction, poetry and prose the Harvard undergraduate community has to offer." It also accepts submissions from professional writers and artists beyond the Harvard community.

History

Founding and early years

When the ''Advocate'' was founded, it adopted the motto ''Dulce est Periculum'' (Danger is Sweet) which had been used by an earlier Harvard newspaper, the ''Collegian''. The magazine originally avoided controversial topics, lest it be shut down by university authorities; by the time the editors were making the then-radical demand for coeducation at Harvard, the magazine had attracted the support of James Russell Lowell and Oliver Wendell Holmes, and its life was less precarious. The founding in 1873 of '' The Harvard Crimson'' newspaper (originally the ''Magenta''), and in 1876, of the '' Harvard Lampoon'' humor magazine, led the ''Advocate'' by the 1880s to devote itself to essays, fiction, and poetry. Over the years, the undergraduate editors of and contributors to the ''Advocate'' have gone on to later fame, literary and otherwise.

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edited the magazine in 1880. Edwin Arlington Robinson, Wallace Stevens, E. E. Cummings, and

T. S. Eliot Thomas Stearns Eliot (26 September 18884 January 1965) was a poet, essayist, publisher, playwright, literary critic and editor.Bush, Ronald. "T. S. Eliot's Life and Career", in John A Garraty and Mark C. Carnes (eds), ''American National Biogr ...

all published their undergraduate poetry in the ''Advocate.'' Before World War II, undergraduates who worked on the ''Advocate'' included Malcolm Cowley,

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, Robert Fitzgerald,

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, James Laughlin (who got into trouble with local police for publishing a racy story by Henry Miller) and Norman Mailer.

Post World War II

The ''Advocate'' suspended publication during the years of

, and resumed publication with its April 1947 issue. Editors after the war included

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. The post-war ''Advocate'' published undergraduate and/or graduate work by Richard Wilbur, Robert Bly, John Ashbery, Donald Hall, Frank O'Hara, John Hawkes, Harold Brodkey, Kenneth Koch and Jonathan Kozol as well as illustrations by Edward Gorey. Contributors from outside Harvard during this time included

Ezra Pound Ezra Weston Loomis Pound (30 October 1885 – 1 November 1972) was an expatriate American poet and critic, a major figure in the early modernist poetry movement, and a fascist collaborator in Italy during World War II. His works includ ...

, William Carlos Williams, and Archibald MacLeish. Other contributors after World War II included Adrienne Rich (the first woman to publish regularly in the magazine), Howard Nemerov, Marianne Moore, Robert Lowell, Tom Wolfe, James Atlas, and Sallie Bingham. Some recent alumni of note include novelists Louis Begley, Peter Gadol, Lev Grossman, Benjamin Kunkel, and Francine Prose, poets Carl Phillips and Frederick Seidel, biographer and critic Jean Strouse, journalists Elif Batuman and Timothy Noah, literary scholar Peter Brooks, editors

Jonathan Galassi Jonathan Galassi (born 1949 in Seattle, Washington) has served as the president and publisher of ''Farrar, Straus and Giroux'' and is currently the Chairman and Executive Editor. Early life Galassi was born in Seattle (his father worked as an ...

and Susan Morrison, businessmen Steve Ballmer and Thomas A. Stewart, filmmaker Terrence Malick, and writer and video game developer Austin Grossman. ''First Flowering: The Best of the Harvard Advocate, 1866–1976'', an anthology of selections from the magazine edited by Richard Smoley, was published by Addison-Wesley in 1977. In 1986, ''The Harvard Advocate Anniversary Anthology'' was published in conjunction with the 120th year of the magazine's publication and Harvard's 350th anniversary. The anthology reproduced actual pages and artwork published in the magazine, introducing each literary era with a brief historical overview. The Advocate received a degree of national press attention following a controversial 2000 interview with writer Dave Eggers.

Notable past members

Academics and criticism

* Svetlana Alpers, art historian, critic and professor at University of California at Berkeley * Elif Batuman, author, academic, critic * Amy Boesky, writer, professor of English at

Boston College Boston College (BC) is a private Jesuit research university in Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts. Founded in 1863, the university has more than 9,300 full-time undergraduates and nearly 5,000 graduate students. Although Boston College is classifi ...

* Van Wyck Brooks, literary critic * John Mason Brown, drama critic, author * Richard Bulliet, professor of history at

Columbia University Columbia University (also known as Columbia, and officially as Columbia University in the City of New York) is a private research university in New York City. Established in 1754 as King's College on the grounds of Trinity Church in Manha ...

Stephanie Burt Stephanie Burt (born 1971) is a literary critic and poet who is Professor of English at Harvard University. ''The New York Times'' has called her "one of the most influential poetry critics of ergeneration". Burt grew up around Washington, D.C. S ...

, literary critic, poet, professor at

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* Charles Townsend Copeland, Harvard professor of English literature * Holland Cotter, art critic with ''The New York Times'', winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Criticism * Malcolm Cowley, poet, literary critic, editor at ''

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'' * Jonathan Culler, literary critic, professor of English at

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Thomas F. Glick Thomas F. Glick (born January 28, 1939) is an American academic who taught in the departments of history and gastronomy at Boston University from 1972 to 2012. He served as the history department's chairperson from 1984 to 1989, and again from 1994 ...

, professor of history at

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Mark Greif Mark Greif (born 1975) is an author, educator and cultural critic. His most recent book is ''Against Everything''. One of the co-founders of ''n+1'', he is a frequent contributor to the magazine and writes for numerous other publications. Greif curr ...

, critic, co-founder of the literary journal ''

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'' * Allen Grossman, poet, critic, professor of humanities at

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* Lev Grossman, novelist, journalist, book critic for ''Time Magazine'' * Rachel Hadas, poet, professor of English at

Rutgers University Rutgers University (; RU), officially Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, is a public land-grant research university consisting of four campuses in New Jersey. Chartered in 1766, Rutgers was originally called Queen's College, and wa ...

* Leslie Kirwan, government official, Harvard Dean for Finance and Administration * George Lyman Kittredge, literary critic, Harvard professor of English literature * Susan Manning, dance historian, professor of English and theatre at

Northwestern University Northwestern University is a private research university in Evanston, Illinois. Founded in 1851, Northwestern is the oldest chartered university in Illinois and is ranked among the most prestigious academic institutions in the world. Chart ...

* James Matisoff, professor of linguistics,

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* Margaret Mills, folklorist, professor of Near Eastern languages and cultures at

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* Christopher Minkowski, professor of Sanskrit at the

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Stephen Minot Stephen Minot (May 27, 1927 – December 1, 2010) was an American novelist and short story author. Born in Boston, Massachusetts, Minot graduated from Harvard College in 1951. He taught creative writing at several colleges, including Bowdoin Co ...

, novelist * William Vaughn Moody, literary critic, Harvard English professor * Laurie L. Patton, author, poet, dean of Arts and Sciences and professor of religion at Duke University * Harriet Ritvo, historian, professor of history at

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* Kenji Yoshino, professor of constitutional law at

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* Arthur Waldron, professor of international relations at the

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Art, architecture, and engineering

* Miles Coolidge, photographer, art educator * Ellen Harvey, visual artist *

Antoinette LaFarge Antoinette LaFarge is a new media artist and writer known for her work with mixed-reality performance and projects exploring the conjunction of visual art and fiction. Biography LaFarge received her M.F.A. degree in Computer Art from the School of ...

, artist, writer, and professor of art at the University of California, Irvine *

Peter Soriano Peter Soriano (born 1959) is a contemporary artist and sculptor. His works are included in the collections of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, the Portland Museum of Art and the Colby College Museum of Art in Maine, the Morgan Library & Museum ...

, artist and sculptor

Business and philanthropy

* Steve Ballmer, businessman, former CEO of

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, president and publisher of Farrar, Straus and Giroux *

Thomas W. Lamont Thomas William Lamont Jr. (September 30, 1870 – February 2, 1948) was an American banker. Early life Lamont was born in Claverack, New York. His parents were Thomas Lamont, a Methodist minister, and Caroline Deuel Jayne. Since his father was ...

, financier and philanthropist *

Michael Lynton Michael Mark Lynton (born January 1, 1960) is a businessman and current chairman of Snap Inc. He previously served as chairman and chief executive of Sony Pictures Entertainment. In 2017, Lynton stepped down as CEO of Sony Entertainment to becom ...

, businessman, current CEO of Sony Pictures Entertainment * Jeffrey Rayport, consultant author, businessman * Andrew Wylie, literary agent, founder of The Wylie Agency

Editing and translation

* Witter Bynner, poet, translator * John Keene, writer and translator * Maxwell Perkins, editor for

Ernest Hemingway Ernest Miller Hemingway (July 21, 1899 – July 2, 1961) was an American novelist, short-story writer, and journalist. His economical and understated style—which he termed the iceberg theory—had a strong influence on 20th-century fic ...

, F. Scott Fitzgerald and Thomas Wolfe * Richard Sieburth, translator, essayist, editor, professor of French and comparative literature at

* Peter Theroux, translator

Fiction

* Conrad Aiken, novelist and poet * Emily Barton, novelist, critic, professor of English at

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* William Bayer, novelist, screenwriter * Louis Begley, novelist * Caleb Crain, novelist and critic * Nicholas Delbanco, novelist, professor at Bennington College * Sean Desmond, writer of ''

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'', the basis for the 2002 film ''Abandon'' * Nell Freudenberger, novelist, travel writer * Peter Gadol, novelist * Allegra Goodman, novelist * Chad Harbach, novelist, co-founder of literary journal ''

'' * Julie Hilden, novelist and lawyer * Ann Hodgman, author of children's books *

Sara Houghteling Sara Houghteling (born 1977) is an American novelist and educator. Biography She was born in 1977 and graduated from Harvard magna cum laude in 1999. She received her Master's in Fine Arts in creative writing from the University of Michigan in ...

, novelist and educator *

Angela Hur Angela Mi Young Hur is an American writer based in Sweden. Her debut novel, ''The Queens of K-Town'', was published in 2007 by MacAdam/Cage. Her second novel, ''Folklorn'', is forthcoming froErewhonin 2021. Early life and education Raised in Ga ...

, novelist * Benjamin Kunkel, novelist, co-founder of literary journal ''

'' *

Oliver LaFarge Oliver Hazard Perry La Farge II (December 19, 1901 – August 2, 1963) was an American writer and anthropologist. In 1925 he explored early Olmec sites in Mexico, and later studied additional sites in Central America and the American South ...

, writer, anthropologist, Pulitzer prize winner * Norman Mailer, writer * Francine Prose, writer

Film, theater, television, and entertainment

* Robert Anderson, playwright * William Bayer, novelist and screenwriter * Harry Brown, poet, novelist, Oscar-winning screenwriter * Chris Gerolmo, screenwriter, director * Austin Grossman, author and game designer *

Maeve Kinkead Maeve Kinkead (born May 31, 1946) is an American soap opera actress, writer and poet. Acting After numerous roles on stage, Kinkead's first major role was as Angie Perrini on the soap '' Another World'' (1975–80). Kinkead's longest runnin ...

, soap opera actress * Franklin Leonard, co-founder of The Black List survey * Karin Lewicki, screenwriter * Percy MacKaye, dramatist and poet * Terrence Malick, filmmaker *

Julie Mallozzi Julie Mallozzi is a documentary filmmaker, producer, artist and teacher based in Boston, Massachusetts. She is of Chinese and Italian-American descent and was raised in Ohio. Early life and education She received her BA from Harvard Universi ...

, documentary filmmaker, producer *

Lawrence Osgood Lawrence Osgood (died December 13, 2018) was a novelist, playwright and essayist with joint United States, US/Canada, Canadian citizenship. He held a bachelor's degree cum laude in English Literature from Harvard and a master's degree in Creative Wr ...

, playwright and essayist * Justin Rice, musician and actor *

Richard E. Robbins Richard E. Robbins is an American filmmaker and documentary maker, who has produced and directed several documentaries for ABC and PBS. The most notable is '' Operation Homecoming: Writing the Wartime Experience'', which puts forward the perspect ...

, documentarian * Adam Stein, film director, writer and editor * James Toback, filmmaker *

Ali Sethi Ali Aziz Sethi (Urdu/; ; born July 2, 1984) is a Pakistani singer, songwriter, composer, and author. Sethi rose to prominence with his debut novel, '' The Wish Maker'' (2009). In 2012, Sethi began focusing on his musical career and made his film ...

, singer, songwriter and writer

Journalism and non-fiction writing

Emily Benedek Emily Benedek is an American journalist and author. She is a graduate of Harvard College. She has written for '' Newsweek'', '' The New York Times'', National Public Radio, '' The Washington Post'', '' Rolling Stone'', and ''Glamour Glamour m ...

, journalist and author * Jacob Brackman, journalist, musical lyricist * Christopher Caldwell, journalist, senior editor at ''

The Weekly Standard ''The Weekly Standard'' was an American neoconservative political magazine of news, analysis and commentary, published 48 times per year. Originally edited by founders Bill Kristol and Fred Barnes, the ''Standard'' had been described as a "r ...

'' * Amy Davidson, senior editor at ''

The New Yorker ''The New Yorker'' is an American weekly magazine featuring journalism, commentary, criticism, essays, fiction, satire, cartoons, and poetry. Founded as a weekly in 1925, the magazine is published 47 times annually, with five of these issue ...

'' *

Ben Downing Ben Downing may refer to: * Ben Downing (writer) (born 1967), American author * Benjamin Downing (born 1981), known as Ben, American politician {{Hndis, Downing, Ben ...

, cultural historian * William Emerson, journalist, editor-in-chief at the '' Saturday Evening Post'' *

Hermann Hagedorn Hermann Hagedorn (18 July 1882 – 27 July 1964) was an American author, poet and biographer. Life and career He was born in New York City and educated at The Hill School and Harvard University, where he was awarded the George B. Sohier Prize ...

, biographer * Mark Helprin, novelist, journalist, conservative commentator * Catherine Herridge, chief intelligence correspondent for the

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, radio broadcaster at NBC and CBS * Perri Klass, pediatrician and writer *

David Laskin David Laskin (born October 25, 1953) is an American writer of books about history, travel, weather, gardens and literary biography. Biography Born and raised in Great Neck, New York, Laskin graduated from John L. Miller North Senior High and w ...

, writer, travel journalist *

Jonathan Larsen Jonathan Zerbe Larsen (born January 6, 1940) is an American journalist and philanthropist who was editor-in-chief of ''The Village Voice'' from 1989 to 1994 and is senior editor and board member of the news website WhoWhatWhy. The son of former Ti ...

, former editor-in-chief at ''

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'' *

Sarah Manguso Sarah Manguso (born 1974) is an American writer and poet. In 2007, she was awarded the Joseph Brodsky Rome Prize Fellowship in literature by the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Her memoir ''The Two Kinds of Decay'' (2008), was named an "Ed ...

, memoirist, novelist, and poet *

Liz Marlantes Liz Marlantes is an ABC News Correspondent. She joined ABC News in February 2005 as a general assignment correspondent and is based in ABC News' Washington D.C. bureau. Marlantes graduated magna cum laude from Harvard University in 1996, wh ...

, ABC News Correspondent * Lance Morrow, essayist and writer at ''

Time Magazine ''Time'' (stylized in all caps) is an American news magazine based in New York City. For nearly a century, it was published weekly, but starting in March 2020 it transitioned to every other week. It was first published in New York City on M ...

'' * Timothy Noah, journalist and author, past senior editor of ''

'' * Katha Pollitt, feminist poet, essayist and critic * John Reed, journalist, poet, social activist * Tom Reiss, author, historian, journalist, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography * Charlie Savage, newspaper reporter with ''The New York Times'', recipient of the

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* Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr., historian, writer * Neil Sheehan, journalist, received the

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from

* Richard Smoley, writer on esotericism * Thomas A. Stewart, journalist, editor, director of National Center for the Middle Market at the Fisher College of Business at

* Jean Strouse, biographer *

Melanie Thernstrom Melanie Thernstrom (born 1964) is an author and contributing writer for the '' New York Times Magazine'' who frequently writes about murders and crime. Biography Thernstrom attended Harvard University, where she graduated with highest honors ...

, author, contributing writer at ''

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Law and politics

Daniel Baer Daniel Brooks Baer (born January 6, 1977) is an American politician and former diplomat from Colorado. Baer served in the Obama administration's State Department, first as a Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for the Bureau of Democracy, Human Ri ...

, United States Ambassador for the

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* Thomas C. Foley, American diplomat, businessman *

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, judicial philosopher, judge in the

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Todd M. Hughes Todd Michael Hughes (born November 1966) is a United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit. Biography Hughes was born in November, 1966, in Delaware, Ohio. He graduated from Harvard College with an ...

, United States Circuit Judge *

Peter Jaszi Peter Jaszi is a widely known expert on copyright law and author, with Patricia Aufderheide, of ''Reclaiming Fair Use'' (2012), which examines the state of fair use and the importance to scholarship, art, and free expression of strengthening the do ...

, author, expert on copyright law * Peter Junger, internet activist *

Grover Norquist Grover Glenn Norquist (born October 19, 1956) is an American political activist and tax reduction advocate who is founder and president of Americans for Tax Reform, an organization that opposes all tax increases. A Republican, he is the prima ...

, conservative political advocate *

, President of the United States * Barbara Underwood, New York Solicitor General *

Charles Proctor Sifton Charles Proctor Sifton (March 18, 1935 – November 9, 2009) was a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York from 1977 to 2009 and its Chief Judge from 1995 to 2000. Education and career ...

, United States federal judge * Kenji Yoshino, Chief Justice Earl Warren Professor of Constitutional Law at

Poetry

* Judith Baumel, poet * April Bernard, poet * e.e. cummings, poet * T.S. Eliot, poet *

Arthur Davison Ficke Arthur Davison Ficke (November 10, 1883 – November 30, 1945) was an American poet, playwright, and expert of Japanese art. Ficke had a national reputation as "a poet's poet", and "one of America's most expert sonneteers". Under the alias Ann ...

, poet * Sidney Goldfarb, poet * Alice Goodman, poet and librettist * Donald Hall, poet, editor, 14th United States poet laureate *

Matthea Harvey Matthea Harvey (born September 3, 1973) is a contemporary American poet, writer and professor. She has published four collections of poetry. The most recent of these, ''If the Tabloids Are True What Are You?'', a collection of poetry and images, ...

, poet * Robert Hillyer, poet, Harvard English professor * Wayne Koestenbaum, poet, cultural critic, professor of English at the

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Joyelle McSweeney Joyelle McSweeney (first name meaning: Rejoicing) (born 1976) is a poet, playwright, novelist, critic, and professor at the University of Notre Dame. Her books include ''Toxicon & Arachne'' (2021) from Nightboat Books, ''The Necropastoral: Poetry, ...

, poet, critic, professor at

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* Elise Paschen, editor, poet, co-founder of '' Poetry in Motion'' * Carl Phillips, writer, poet, professor of English and Afro-American studies at Washington University in St. Louis * Adrienne Rich, poet * Edwin Arlington Robinson, poet, three time Pulitzer prize winner * Mary Jo Salter, poet, professor in Writing Seminars at

, co-editor of ''

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'' * Frederick Seidel, poet * Wallace Stevens, poet * John Hall Wheelock, poet, editor at Scribners *

John Brooks Wheelwright John Brooks Wheelwright (sometimes Wheelright) (9 September 1897 – 13 September 1940) was an American poet from a Boston Brahmin background. He belonged to the poetic ''avant garde'' of the 1930s and was a Marxist, a founder-member of the T ...

, poet *

, poet, Harvard English Professorhttps://www.arts.gov/sites/default/files/Reader-Resources-Advice-from-the-Lights.pdf

Science, technology, medicine, and mathematics

* Jordan Ellenberg, mathematician, professor at

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* Sarah Blaffer Hrdy, anthropologist and primatologist * Edward Hallowell, psychiatrist and author * Wendell Lim, professor of cellular and molecular pharmacology at

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* Seth Lloyd, professor of mechanical engineering at the

James Propp James Gary Propp is a professor of mathematics at the University of Massachusetts Lowell. Education and career In high school, Propp was one of the national winners of the United States of America Mathematical Olympiad (USAMO), and an alumnus o ...

, professor of mathematics at

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Past presidentsHarvard Advocate Archives, 21 South Street, Cambridge MA. Includes copies of all past issues, with mastheads listing memberships.

1868: M Williams 1869: M.S. Severance 1870: R. Wolcott 1871: W.S. Bigelow 1872: P.C. Severance 1873: J. Lyman 1874: W.R. Tyler 1875: C.F. Canfield 1876: A.A. Wheeler 1877: George Edward Woodberry 1878: L. Hancock, E.W. Morse 1879: E. Hale 1880: Albert Bushnell Hart, H. Townsend 1881: C. Sprague 1883: C.H. Grandgent 1884: C.R. Clapp 1885: G.R. Nutter 1886: T.T. Baldwin 1887: Winthrop Wetherbee 1888: L. McK Garrison 1889: J.H. Sears 1890: G.P. Wardner 1891: S.C. Brackett 1892: John Corbin 1893:

1894: C.W. Slope 1895: C. M. Flandrau, J Mack Jr. 1896: J.A. Gade 1897: C.H. Hovey 1898: R. Putter 1899: John A. Macy 1900: William R. Castle, Jr. 1901: Wallace Stevens 1902: J.C. Grew 1903: Richard Washburn Child 1904: A.D. Fickle 1905: Arthur W. Page 1906: R.W. Beach 1907: J.L. Price 1908: Edward B. Sheldon 1909: A Whitman, F. Schenck 1910: W.G. Tinckom-Fernandez 1911: C.P. Aiken 1912: G.W. Gray 1913: Philip James Roosevelt 1914: P.W. Thayer 1915: H. Jackson Jr. 1916: H. Amory 1917: J.D. Parson 1918: Robert Nathan Cram, William Allis Norris, E. Whittlesey 1919: Charles MacVeagh Jr., Lloyd Kirkham Garrison, J.R. Parsons 1920: J.G. King Jr. 1921: Steddard Benham Colby 1922: W. Whitman 1923: M.A. Best 1924:

1925: John Finley Jr. 1926: Walter Dumaux Edmonds Jr. 1927: Kendall Foss 1928: C.C. Abbott 1929: Robeson Bailey 1930: T. Hall Jr. 1931: Wilson Mumford Wing 1932:

James Rufus Agee James Rufus Agee ( ; November 27, 1909 – May 16, 1955) was an American novelist, journalist, poet, screenwriter and film critic. In the 1940s, writing for ''Time Magazine'', he was one of the most influential film critics in the United States. ...

1933: Robert Hatch 1934: C.L. Sulzberger 1935: Hugh M. Wade 1936: J.J. Slocum, Julian S. Bach 1937: F. Corning Kenly Jr. 1938: Alvah W. Sulloway 1939: Samuel N. Hinckly 1940: Thornton Frederick Bradshaw 1941: Westmore Wileox III 1944: Kingsley Ervin Jr. 1947: Donald B. Watt Jr. 1948: A.G. Haas 1949: Lloyd Staube Gilmour Jr. 1950: Donald Andrew Hall Jr.,

1951: Harvey Slom Ginsberg 1952: George A. Kelly 1953: Samuel D. Stewart 1954: Allen Grossman 1955: Eugene S. Dodd 1956: John Ratte 1957: A. Whitney Ellsworth 1958: Peter P. Brooks 1959: E.J. Bresson 1960: E. deBresson 1961: B.A. Melnick 1962: J. Urrutia 1963: Terence Cogley 1964: Gerald P. Hillman 1965: Stuart A. Davis 1966: Stuart A. Davis 1967: Peter Shaw 1968: Thomas A. Stewart 1969: James R. Atlas 1970:

1971: Chris Ma 1972: Gregory Moore 1973: R. Paul 1974: M. Leib 1975: Paul K. Rowe 1976: Douglas A. McIntyre 1977: John McCullough 1978: Richard V. Nalley 1979: Sarah V. Chace 1980: C. Gerard 1981: Sandra DeJong 1982: L. Murphy 1983: D. Longobardi 1984: S. Harney 1985: Peter D. Gadol 1986: Vivian S.M. Wang 1988: W. Caleb Crain 1989: M. Charters 1990: Rebecca Zorach 1991: Elizabeth Elsas 1992: Peter Nohrnberg 1993: Kelli Rae Patton 1994: Alp Aker 1995: Priya Aiyar 1996: C. You 1997: Daley C. Haggar 1998: Etienne Benson 1999: Saadi Soudavar 2000: Caroline Whitbeck 2001: Brooke Lampley 2002: Cody Carvel 2003: Walt Hunter 2004: Andrews Little 2005: Steven R. Williams 2006: Casey N. Cep 2007: Gregory R. Scruggs 2008: Alexandra Hays 2009: Sanders I. Bernstein 2010: Dana Kase 2011: Emily Chertoff 2012: Alexander J.B. Wells 2013: Tyler Richard 2014: Julian Lucas 2015: Kiara Barrow 2016: Henry Shah 2017: Lily Scherlis 2018: Natasha Lasky 2019: Sabrina Helen Li 2020: Owen Torrey 2021: Madi Howard 2022: Albert B. Zhang 2023: Annika Inampudi

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