The Idol is the Union College literary magazine which includes poetry, prose, photography, and art. When Professor Raymond Herrick's advanced composition class (English 31) launched the Idol on February 9,1928, it took the name of one of the College's icons, previously used in 1911 for a short-lived humor magazine (supra). The magazine began as a literary review, evidently modeled to a degree on the Saturday Review of Literature. It published fiction and poetry but gave prominent place to literary essays and criticism and book reviews.
