Word: pegasus
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Elisberg replaces Hall as Pegasus, literary chief of the magazine. Friedman was elected to take the plce of Wiggin as secretary...
...full heard meeting, 15 Advocate editors elected Donald A. Hall, Jr, '51, of Hamden, Conn, and Eliot House, as presidetn; Daniel Elisberg '52, of Detroit and Lowell House, as Pegasus; and Leonard J. Friedman '51, of Mt. Vernon, N. Y., and Kirkland House as secretary...
Gilnour and Donald A. Hall '51, present Pegasus of the magazine, maintained that "The Advocate's policy of running short stories, criticism, and poetry needs no defense since the Advocate . . . (has a) responsibility to serve as a medium for the expression of undergraduate literary talent...
Shafer's group, along with several more Advocate editors, had been fighting for a more down-to-earth approach, while others--particularly the present pro-tem President Lloyd S. Gilmour '51 and Pegasus Donald A. Hall '51--had defended the Advocate's policy of running short stories, criticism, and poetry, as well as articles...
Said Milles, who considers the statue one of the best things he has ever done: "Greek and other artists always depicted Pegasus with the rider on his back, while I visualize the poet flying independently . . . both animal and man having expressions of longing for something, we don't know what . . ." A few visitors called Pegasus the most improbable thing they had ever seen in their lives; many more gasped in sheer admiration...