Word: aspect
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Harvard Advocate" substantiates the contention of many observers that the indifference toward social and economic issues which characterized the American undergraduate of the last fow decades is giving way to an active interest. In this issue of an ostensibly "literary" magazine five of the seven articles deal with some aspect of the social problem, one of the three stories is a savage reaction to the depression, and the other two have overtones of the class-struggle and unemployment, while a one-act play is laid in the tenement of a family on relief. Assuredly we may say, here...
...undergraduate philosopher, it is said, is preparing an essay on the non-religious aspect of going to Chapel, to be submitted to the Board of Overseers...
Generously large scholarships are a salient feature of the unfolding educational program of Harvard's President Conant. One favorite aspect of his plans is the effort to attract to the Eastern school scholars of exceptional ability from the Middle Western and Western states by means of especially attractive scholarships...
With the proposed endowment, however, the real problems arise, and it is this aspect of the program which is most significant. For certainly the ideal athletic set-up for a university would be complete endowment, with no gate receipts to worry about, and with coaches occupying positions comparable to those of curricular instructors. If such an endowment could be obtained from some generous alumnus, who wished to give his money for no other purposes, that would be sheer heaven. It is not beyond the realms of possibility that Harvard has such a donor up its sleeve, but in all probability...
...Roar China, two plays fresh from Moscow. Following year, with Guild money and a Guild script, the Group Theatre, mostly Guild alumni, evolved from the Guild Studio. It presented The House of Connelly as its first play. The social implications concerned the deterioration of Southern landowners. A more sardonic aspect of the U. S. scene was Success Story, the Group's most promising offering in 1932. The 1933 Pulitzer Prize went to Men in White, which had some bitter comments to make on the interference of Capitalism with Medicine (TIME, Oct. 9, 1933). With Awake and Sing! and Waiting...