guished poet and satirist; and President Timothy Dwight wrote a great hymn, which will last as long as hymns are sung.

Fenimore Cooper is the only author of permanent and international fame connected with Yale, and the Faculty expelled him for insubordination midway in his college course. It is my earnest hope that some day his statue will adorn our campus, for he really belongs to us. Through the generosity of the Class of 1879, we have his portrait in oils, and the best biography of him was written by Professor Lounsbury. E. C. Stedman, poet and critic, was also disciplined by the Faculty, and years later invited to a chair. His constant loyalty and devotion to Yale remind one of James Russell Lowell, who was forbidden by the Harvard Faculty to read his class poem, and responded in 1865 by reading the Commemoration Ode, the greatest poem produced by the Civil War.

In the nineteenth century, there are some names of eminence that it is safe to say can never be omitted from any comprehensive "History of American Literature." These are N. P. Willis, '27, whose Life by Professor Beers is more than worthy of the subject; Donald G. Mitchell, '41, who attained fame early in life with the Reveries of a Bachelor, and was both in mind and character a perfect illustration of the finer qualities that ought always to be associated with men of letters; E. R. Sill, '61, some of whose poems are quoted somewhere in America every day; F. M. Finch, '49, whose name was prophetic, for he sang two songs that will not be forgotten, a stanza from one of them being engraved on the floor of Memorial Hall; Henry A. Beers, '69, a poet and story-writer, of whom the only justly adverse comment can be, that he ought to have written more.

Yale's greatness as the mother of authors lies in the future. A large number of young alumni in the twentieth century are producing novels, short stories, plays, and poems in profusion. The late Justus Miles Forman, '98, who was lost on the Lusitania, had a long list of excellent works of fiction to his credit; Gouverneur Morris of the same class is at this moment a popular author; so is Owen Johnson, 1900; Rupert Hughes, who took his M.A.

in course in 1899, has attained a wide reputation both as novelist and playwright; and in May, 1916, three new novels appeared from three recent graduates, which are notable for their display of potential powers. On one shelf in my library stand eighteen works of fiction, all written by living Yale graduates; and these constitute only a small fraction of the total literary production. In creative poetry, Brian Hooker, 1902, has won a place for himself among contemporary writers, and would be thought of immediately in any enumeration of living American poets; the same statement applies with equal truth and emphasis to W. R. Benét, 1907 S.

No sketch of Yale's contributions to literature should omit mention of the Yale Literary Magazine, which celebrates this year its eightieth birthday. This is the oldest monthly magazine-in or out of college circles—in America, and its standards were never higher than at the present moment.

One of the best things that has ever happened in the history of Yale's literary activities, was the founding, in 1911, of the Yale Review, under the able editorship of Wilbur L. Cross, then Professor of English in the Sheffield Scientific School, and now Dean of the Graduate School. Within five years, this periodical has reached an undisputed place in the front rank of American reviews, and is a fine illustration of, and at the same time, a sharp stimulus to the intellectual life of the University. Together with the recently founded Yale University Press, these two agencies have added immensely to the international fame of Yale. If every alumnus were a subscriber to the Yale Review, the university and the alumni would come together closer than ever before; and the alumni would more fully realise some of the highest purposes and some of the finest achievements of Yale, as a center of art and thought.

YALE IN JOURNALISM

By

NORRIS G. OSBORN

Yale in Journalism is a very large order even for one who has knocked about in it for approaching forty years, and has inevitably, in consequence, come into intimate contact with Yale men on the journalistic rush line. The Fourth Estate closely resembles the other three estates in that it blocks one's study of its personnel by hiding back of the lofty peaks the hosts below-men of far reaching achievement-who stretch from the fertile valleys up through the winding passes and jutting crags until the top is reached. If Yale could claim as members of her brotherhood Dana of the New York Sun, Greeley of the New York Tribune, Raymond of the New York Times, the elder Bowles of the Springfield Republican, and the sole picturesque survivor of the school of personal journalism, Watterson of the Louisville Courier-Journal-men whose careers have enriched the history of American journalism and stimulated it-they would be the first to renounce the exclusive distinction which popular fancy and fawning historians have conferred upon them. They would insist that they should not be crowned until a corresponding recognition had been conferred upon the subordinate officers and men in the journalistic trenches who, in a large degree, fitted their heads to the crowns they were so modestly to wear. In each of these newspaper offices, in all of them to-day, in fact in all commanding newspaper offices to-day, were and are expert craftsmen who won their degrees in the arts and sciences at Yale. If it were within the limits of good taste to poke about the ink-stained offices of newspapers being edited and printed to-day in the state from which Yale draws her chartered rights, I could write of