Literary Articles

In the first meeting with the editorial board of the Wagner Literary Magazine ,Professor Willard Mass, the newly appointed Faculty advisor expressed some as tonishment at the ecidently beat chracter of the most promising student writing submitted for publication.A campaign was at once undertaken to obtain further material from the student body and to perfect their manuscripts.The best products of that campaign are presented here.

Professor Maas meanwhile, interested in the literary phenomenon that had produced the beat manuscripts,suggested and then helped to organiza the sympoisium on beat poetry that opens this issue.He also invited a number of very distinguished writers and scholars to express opinions as to the literary value of the beat poetry and its probable effects on the coming generations of the student and writers.