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Leaders in a movement to improve undergraduate drama facilities have been Robert H. Chapman, assistant professor of English, on leave of absence in 1954-55, Harry T. Levin '33, professor of English, and Archibald MacLeish, Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory. Aside from Chapman's Theater Laboratory, new under the direction of Mrs. Mark DeWelfe Howe, with a membership of ten, however, there have been no definite plans...
Portrait of a Lady (adapted from Henry James's novel by William Archibald), which closed at week's end, was almost foredoomed to fail in the theater...
Thus Poet Archibald MacLeish recalls one of the great American writers in his days of early glory, back in the 1920s, when it always seemed to be April in Paris. Last week Ernest Hemingway was a long way from Paris and a long way from April. He was 55, but he looked older. He cruised in a black and green fishing boat off the coast of Cuba, near where the Gulf Stream draws a dark line on the seascape. The grey-white hair escaping from beneath a visored cap was unkempt, and the Caribbean glare induced a sea-squint...
...Harvard has to maintain more or less its relative position to maintain its intellectual effectiveness," agrees Archibald MacLeish, acting master of Eliot House. But there is another social obligation which must be met first. "There is no point to expansion," macLcish continues, "if in expanding, you lose what Harvard College is." More specifically, the quality opf the faculty and the spirit of the Houses...
...Archibald MacLeish, Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory, last night reaffirmed the need for democratic nations to pursue a policy of peace in combating communism...