108 pages, plus 4 of advertisements. At some stage the magazine lost its covers which have been carefully and beautifully replaced with brown paper and a brown spine and in the process both hinges reinforced with clear tape. The Content's page is tanned, and it also has two very short, closed tears. A clean, unmarked and solid copy, marked good because of its missing covers. Contains articles by Sinclair Lewis, William Harlan Hale and Eugene V. Rostow amongst others. "With the onset of the Great Depression, Yale had entered a period of critical ferment over social and educational issues. Even the staid Yale Literary Magazine joined in. Its April 1930 editorial critiqued the college man for "fribbling away his days amid chaff, and in the end achieving only a kind of jangled emptiness." But Lit. editors William Harlan Hale '31 and Selden Rodman '31 wanted stronger stuff. They founded and funded the Hoot in 1930. In their premiere issue that October, the editors pledged "to arouse a healthy skepticism regarding many institutions now taken for granted." Over its four-year run, the Hoot variously outraged and inspired Yale alumni and cut a wide swath in the public debate." (Yale Alumni Magazine)