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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...should do so now. Much of the constitution's success will depend on proper preparation, and no arrangements can be made until the official stand is known. With the cooperation of the Dean's office, the Council will be able to set up the mechanics of the plan and brief incoming freshmen on how elections will be conducted.. Well-run proctoral meetings and an informed entering class can make the new constitution success...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Approval, Please | 5/11/1949 | See Source »

...joint committee proposal was made yesterday afternoon to the Radcliffe Council, which passed it unanimously after brief discussion. It will be presented to the Harvard Council Thursday. Dean Sherman, as well as Bender, has given her okay...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Committee Asks Vote on Co-ed Clubs | 5/10/1949 | See Source »

...history of the theater in this country. Not only can it claim to have first offered creative opportunity to such men as Robert Edmond Jones, Donald Oenslager, and Robert Sherwood, but many significant new plays have been given their American premieres here under the Club's auspices. A brief list of some of the more important would include Auden and Isherwood's "The Dog Beneath the Skin," Saki's "The Watched Pot," Johnston's "A Bride for the Unicorn," Coctean's "La Machine Infernale," and Eliot's "Murder in the Cathedral." The Club's production of "The Ascent...

Author: By George A. Leiper, | Title: From the Pit | 5/10/1949 | See Source »

...Best in the Business" was at its best Wednesday night when it presented the annual spring band concert to a sparse Sanders audience. Spirited, lively music filled the ancient hall, with a brief interruption for "Die Wursthausen Philharmonischen Flugelhorn Musikanten," the perennial concert comics...

Author: By Edward J. Sack, | Title: The Music Box | 5/6/1949 | See Source »

Though the overture is too lengthy for its purpose, the new score of Lukas Foss blends in smoothly with the production, though not so gay as it is. The songs are particularly good. One very amusing scene, though brief and extraneous, is the visitation of the three goddesses to the newly-betrothed couple...

Author: By George A. Leiper, | Title: The Playgoer | 5/6/1949 | See Source »

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