[2] Fifty years after that, Donald Hall wrote in The New York Times Book Review: "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.

When the Advocate was founded, it adopted the mottos Dulce est Periculum (Danger Is Sweet) and Veritas Nihil Veretur (Truth Fears Nothing), which had been used by an earlier Harvard newspaper, the Collegian.

The postwar 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.

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 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.

The anthology reproduced actual pages and artwork published in the magazine, introducing each literary era with a brief historical overview.

Abbott 1929: Robeson Bailey 1930: T. Hall Jr. 1931: Wilson Mumford Wing 1932: James Rufus Agee 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., Daniel Ellsberg 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.

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: Jonathan Galassi 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 2024: Maren E. Wong 2025: Frank Y.C.