THE GREEN LEAF. MAY 1929. VOL. V, NO. 2. (Front cover title: "The Green Leaf. Spring Number, 1929.") [Syracuse University undergraduate student semiannual literary magazine; Volume 5, Number 2.]

48 pages plus covers. Staple-bound periodical; H 26.25cm x L 18.5cm. Off-white paper covers; strong soiling to color pictorial front cover with lighter soiling to blank rear cover, covers' edges overlap the text block with resulting chipping particularly at bottom corners and edges as well as mild curling and short tears, some loss at spine ends with 4.5cm tear at heel. Binding remains firm as staples are secure. Soiling to front cover's blank verso and opposing title page and at margins of rear cover recto; interior pages remain fairly clean. Minor loss at bottom corners of pages 1-4; top corner of pages 9-10 creased from past fold-down. Described on the title page as "a magazine of freshman literary endeavor" and published semiannually. Editor-in-chief James Douvarjo is cited as a staff representative; associate editors Marion H. Bastow, Elizabeth H. Hopkins, Eugene O'Neill, Paul Putziger, and Jerome S. Schwartz are cited as "Student Board." Biographer Louis Sheaffer, author of O'NEILL; SON AND PLAYWRIGHT (Boston: Little, Brown, 1968), does not mention any Syracuse University connection to playwright Eugene O'Neill (1888-1953) but, coincidently, O'Neill's namesake progeny, Eugene O'Neill, Jr. (1910-1950) would have been the right age for being a member of the literary magazine's "Student Board." However, O'Neill, Jr. graduated from Yale University with a B.A. in 1932 and a Ph.D. in 1936 so, lacking a Syracuse yearbook or class annual for further research, it is probably best to assume that there is no relation. Such speculation is all the more pointless for O'Neill is not listed among the contributors of the magazine's thirty-seven literary pieces, i.e. one play and multiple short stories and poems. Only a good copy but certainly quite uncommon as such collegiate publications tend to be quite ephemeral.…