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THE COURANT'S WORK
A Critical Year Passed=—Its Editors
and Prospects.
The last issue of the Yale Courant,
published by the present Senior Board,
will appear next Saturday, March 13.
On the evening of the same day the
new Board from the class of 1898 will
meet to organize and elect its officers.
There is at present one vacancy on
the Junior Board, which if not filled
before next Saturday, will be decided
upon by the ’98 editors. The retire-
ment of G. S. Haydock, ’97, leaves a
vacancy which is open to the compe-
tition of all classes. The control of
the paper will be formally handed
over to the new Board at the annual
banquet, which takes place March 19
at the New Haven House.
The present Senior Board consists of
the following: We. J, Sunger, .. 97,
chairman; A. F. Judd, Jr., ’97, business
manager; Nelson L. Barnes, 1078S .° Cor-
nelius P. Kitchel, ’97; Charles E.
Thomas, 797, and Frederick Tilney, 97,
The Junior editors are Gouverneur
Morris. Jr., Sidney R. Kennedy, For-
syth Wickes, Thomas S. McLane and
Arthur D. Baldwin. Of these the first
and last named are also editors of the
Yale Literary Magazine.
The past year has been an especially
significant one in the history of the
Courant. The Ninety-Seven Board of
Editors took up the management last
March, with the determination to make
every effort to put the paper on 4
higher plane.
With this purpose in mind, the form
of the publication was first assailed.
From the old square, with conventional
cover, the paper was changed to pocket
size. The design for the cover has
not been fixed, but each new issue has
appeared with a new design. These
covers were all made in the poster
style with considerable color effects. To
add to the general attractiveness, from
time to time various line drawings have
been inserted in the text and the edi-
tors have tried to make the ty pogranphi-
eal appearance of the paper equal to
that of any of the college publications.
At the same time the literary stand-
ard of the paper has been greatly rais-
ed and in some respects has equaled the
excellence of the “Lit.’’ This has been
quite possible by virtue of the efforts of
the Ninety-Seven Board, which in-
cludes three of the-regular ‘‘Lit” edi-
tors. and which. in order to preserve
the high standard set at the opening of
the year. has been forced to furnish
most of the contributious itself, instead
of relying upon the contributors for
them. Underclass me: who have suf-
ficient literary ability, are naturally
more anxious to spend their efforts in
competition for the ‘Lit’ rather than
for the Courant, so that the latter im-
mediately falls into second vlace. An
effort has been made to draw a more
distinct line between the fields of the
two magazines, but inasmuch as the
“Lit” editors are beginning to accept ar-
ticles and stories of a lighter nature
than was formerly the case, and the
Courant has been steadily increasing
the caliber of its articles, it will be
readily seen that the two fields, in-
stead of becoming differentiated, are
tending more and more to coincide with
each other.
It is hard to foretell exactly what
will be the fate of the Courant during
the next few years. If its boards con-
tinue to be composed of in part of ‘“Lit”’
editors, who are willing to divide their
efforts between the two papers there is
no reason to suppose that the standard
of the Courant will decline. But the fact
that most of the articles published are
written by the editors themselves is in
some respects a bad sign, and the lack
of sufficient support in both auantity
and quality from the underclassmen
may ultimately weaken the paper to a
very considerable degree.
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A SHARP BATTLE.
Attack by the Chap Book and Defense
by Courant.
In the Chap Book of February 15
appeared the following:
“The curse is upon the college maga-
zines at last. They have started to
become ‘miniature’ and sprightly and
contemporaneous. Some time ago the
Yale Courant gave up its old form of
comparative dignity, and appeared in
Jensen type and a poster cover. Bow-
doin has The Quill, Columbia The
Morningside, and the Normal School
of Oklahoma has the Normal Philo-
math—mere variants in outward form
of the Courant type. :
“Outside, the Courant is the most
gorgeous; inside, the others are less
depressing. Their editors have, for
the most part, read only the other col-
lege papers, while the Courant editors
the supposition will soon be
have read The Quest of the Golden
Girl. They have also read the literary
magazines and reviews, and they com-
ment on them in the editorial pages.
The complaint is, not that they write
badly about them, but that they should
write about them at all. It is taken
for granted that the college editor has
read his classics, but if he goes on
with contemporary writers this way,
proved
false.
“University life in this country has
so far preserved something of the
cloistral suggestion. It has been the
only period when men with a taste for
reading have been allowed to browse
among old writers without being
forced—for conversational purposes—
to keep up with contemporary events.
Every man with a love for letters
came from college with a certain more
or less solid foundation of reading.
After graduation, if he liked, he filled
in the chinks and polished off the cor-
ners and made himself a well read
man. But the skeleton frame of his
culture was put together in those leis-
ure days when the modern novelist
was no more than an occasional flick-
ering light on his horizon.
“Tt is unwise to risk a ‘symposium,’
yet it would be interesting to know
whether—after the distressing mani-
festations of the Yale Courant and the
Normal Philomath of Edmond, Okla-
homa—the college man reads Mr. Le
Gallienne and is coming to have a
‘miniature’ and sprightly mind for
modern fads of literature. It would
seem a deplorable thing.- If our pub-'
lic judgment is not to topple over alto-
gether, there must be a good part of
our readers whose literary knowledge
extends to men who wrote at least be-
fore the war.”
The Courant’s Answer.
(Editorial in lastissue of Courant.)
Tn human nature there is no element
more capable of disgusting manifesta-
tions than conceit. And yet there are
persons who possess the quality to such
a marvelous degree that what is gen-
erally disgusting, becomes ludicrous.
Tt is our pleasant privilege to call the
attention of our readers to certain
writings of an anonymous scribe—un-
known, be it said tearfully, to an ap-
preciative world. These writings are
easily accessible; they appear under the
heading of ‘‘Notes’” in The Chap-Book,
by far. the most influential, cleverly
critical,-ruthlessly caustic, and serenely
infallible of all magazines, periodicals,
or publications of any kind printed upon
this planet. The Chap-Book can be
bought for ten cents, but there are on
file in the office of this paper two copies
of recent issue which are at the disposal
of all who wish to enjoy a hearty taugh.
We have read carefully the “Notes”
of the last issue, especially that portion
of them which treats of the Courant,
and feel that the writer might well say
with Socrates, “As for me, all that I
know is that I know nothing.”
The Chap-Book is pitifully paradox-
ical.
ing the ‘‘curse”’ of the ‘miniature’; it
slurs upon the poster-cover also as a
curse, and still contains the drawings of
Mr. Frank Hazenplug; it has enlarged
its size to obtain dignity and immedi-
ately stoops down from this dignity to
slur upon a college periodical. ©, most
redoubtable Chap-Book, O dgnified and
notable editor!
It is no doubt a heinous thing for a
college paper to write about ‘“‘the lit-
erary reviews,” it is a lamentable thing
that college men should read any mod-
ern novels, much more that they should
dare to form any opinion, and we are
glad to be able to say that such an evil
will not be long without a remedy. It
is rumored that Th2 Chap-Book is soon
to issue an injunction preventing the
majority of publishers in this ceuntry
from sending hooks to be reviewed by
the college magazines, and that fine and
suitable imprisonment are also to be
visited upon any person who does not
agree with the editor of The Chap-
Book. The Chap-Book says that the
Courant editors have read ‘‘The Quest
of the Golden Girl.’’ We: have—we are
very sorry—we did not mean to do
wrone—we swear that we were innocent
—we did not know of The Chap-Book’s
opinion of it—we are humbled and pen-
itent, and please, if the editor of The
Chap-Book will only let us off this time
we will be good in the future.
We have been told that the writer of
these Chap-Book ‘‘notes” is a young
man. We refuse to helieve it. It is
not possible that a man under seventy
(Continued on eighth page.)
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