The Yale Literary Magazine
| Vol. LXXXVIII | MAY, 1923 | No. 8 |
EDITORS
| WALTER EDWARDS HOUGHTON, JR. | ||
| LAIRD SHIELDS GOLDSBOROUGH | DAVID GILLIS CARTER | |
| MORRIS TYLER | NORMAN REGINALD JAFFRAY | |
BUSINESS MANAGERS
| GEORGE W. P. HEFFELFINGER | WALTER CRAFTS |
Leader
There be two handles to all things in this world, one called the good, and one the bad. But a man may lay hold of anything by whichever handle shall please him best.—Old Stoic Maxim.
It has been usual, in the past, for Editors of The Yale Literary Magazine to express themselves as strongly opposed to something, when engaged in writing a leader. Two recent leaders have varied this procedure to the extent of declaring the opposition of their authors to opposition, but the principle of being opposed to something remains. At the present moment, it occurs to us that it might be interesting to suppose correct a few of the pessimistic opinions held by that rather noisy group whom we shall call The Troubled Spirits. On the basis of these suppositions, we shall then try to show that, bad as things are, there still remain a few bright spots lurking in unsuspected corners of the very evils whose existence we are admitting, for the sake of argument.