Word: cannot
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...University authorities have acted wisely in refusing the invitation of Harvard Yale likes to take defeat with good grace, but we cannot refrain from observing that such a competition proves little of importance. Harvard may claim that she admits better material than Yale: she may even argue that her English department offers more thorough preparation for such at test. Yale would not dispute the point, because it is not worth a tinker's damn. It provides a source of raillery for Harvard undergraduates to use against their Yale friends: it probably also makes certain Harvard professors quite satisfied with their...
Creative work in the theatre cannot be forgot by those who would have college dramatics realize their fullest possibilities. The spring program of the Dramatic Club affords an opportunity for this development. That the scheduled musical comedy is the result of student authorship, combined with the fact that it is to be directed within the club, takes the performance out of the class of an amateur company going through the routine mechanics of the professional stage. Further, the absence of semi-professional support in the cast forces the show to stand on its own feet and to make its appeal...
...theatrical activity at Harvard is to keep the pace set in other institutions some consistent encouragement must be given to an effort to work in the theatre from the ground up. Smooth renderings of the plays of other men, however much they may foster neglected art, cannot replace one benefits had when students roll us their sleeves and do the entire job themselves. Unless undergraduate drama at Harvard is to prove a sterile toying with colored lights and elaborate stage sets some permanent avenue must be opened for those who would do more than follow through the trappings...
Inasmuch as the trend in mystery plays has been from baffling plot down to a presentation of grotesque effects and nothing more, the authors of "The Skull" cannot be too severely taken to task. Most good plots have been exhausted by now, but there is still the possibility of giving the public a good scare about once an act. We don't guarantee the goodness of these scares, but no effort is spared in an endeavor to put great numbers of them across...
...best milieu for academic life were exhausted some centuries ago; the modern man of letters must be actruly modern man, and if for no other reason than that of keeping in communication with the progress of men similarly engaged on the other side of the globe, he cannot live in monastic seclusion. As hostile to the American mind, trained in Hoover individualism, as clerical support is a public system that might be scented with State Socialism. Beside private philanthropy, there is no other means in this country for the man born with the ivory tower mind but without the ivory...