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"It is individuality that the wise editor most eagerly looks for and most sedulously cultivates. Apart from the wholly worthless stuff offered, more contributions are rejected because the writers have made a point of accommodation than for any other reason." -- Henry Mills Alden, the so-called "dean of American magazine editors," who edited Harper's for 50 years (1869 to 1919), in his 1908 book "Magazine Writing and the New Literature."