In its year-and-half reign as a voice for moderate left-wing thought in this and other universities, the Student Progressive has gained in stature--physically, if in no other manner, The crudely made up. poorly printed offering of 1946 has been supplemented by a professional-looking little magazine that reminds the reader of nothing so much as a miniature Saturday Review of Literature--minus any artwork or photography.

But in its avowed attempt to become a national (or perhaps even international) student rallying-ground, the Progressive has not succeeded so markedly. Despite attempts to extend its authorship beyond the immediate Harvard vicinity, and despite sporadic circulation drives on various national campuses, the Progressive's ties with the local Liberal Union have yet to be severed. Of the eight articles, a brief book review, and an editorial which the latest issue contains, only two come from elsewhere than the Cambridge-Boston area. These two are a report of the Christian Socialist movement in Oxford by a student at that British university and a rather pessimistic study of the UN by ex-foreign correspondent Louis Fischer.

Perhaps the magazine's greatest fault is its great dearth of material that might interest a general audience--its reports on NSA, SDA, SLID, and ADA lack appeal for few but members and friends of these alphabetical organizations. Only the lead article--by Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.--which gives convincing arguments for the rejection of Communist Party support by any genuine liberal group, is worthy of careful reading. And this gives us little that Schlesinger has not presented elsewhere.

But the Progressive is growing towards its intended collegiate role, nevertheless. The back-cover prospectus for the next number seems very promising, indeed.