Excerpt from The Yale Literary Magazine, Vol. 82: April, 1917The idea, or rather the superstition that beneath the some what forbidding but entirely lovable and holy, brown cover of the lit. There lurk deeps not comfortable for the ordinary diver, is one that is justified only in part by the above state ments. A magazine, after all, depends on the ideas of its contributors and the ideals of its readers. Since in our case, both spring from the undergraduate body, a proper sympathy between the two must produce interesting results. There have been times when one or the other of these two have been lacking, there have been times when sympathy failed. Yet, after all, the lit. Is not what the editors choose to make it, it is an undergraduate publication, it is an undergraduate tradition. It rests with the undergraduate body as a whole, to determine the policy of any board of editors. If at any time the lit. Has become isolated from the College, the blame rests almost equally on the shoulders of reader, contributor and editor.The first volume of the lit. Began with an address to the Gentle Reader. A year ago this month Mr. Bellinger again invoked him. Is it too much to hope, Gentle Reader, that this close touch may be a growing reality, that the sympathy among readers, contributors and editors may become as firm a tradition as the guiding hand of St. Elihu himself?About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.