Only at Harvard did he begin to enjoy his schooling, encouraged in his writing by a small circle of sympathetic friends. He contributed poems and articles to the
Harvard Advocate and became a member of Signet, the undergraduate literary society. As editor of the
Advocate, he occasionally wrote almost an entire issue, as he has been credited with doing in the case of the most notorious issue, a 1925 parody of the
Dial that was banned by Boston authorities. In fact, Edmonds says he wrote only one piece for the issue, but refused to reveal the names of faculty contributors, even when threatened with expulsion. Fortunately, the threats came to naught. In his junior year, for an advanced course in composition with Prof. Charles Townsend Copeland, he wrote "The End of the Towpath," the first of his Erie Canal stories, which was subsequently published in
Scribner's Magazine.
By the end of 1927, he had finished some sixteen stories, of which seven had been sold to such magazines as Scribner's, Atlantic Monthly, and McCall's.
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