Word: caste
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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John J. Hughes '48, a member of the recent Hasty Pudding cast, four Glee Club members, and four 'Cliffedwollers form the core of the cast.' The play is described by author Ashenhurst as "a satire on college life, centering around the Jubilee and Harvard people...
Another important springtime function of the office is the mailing and counting of Alumni ballots for Overseers, directors of the Alumni Association, and the Harvard Fund Council. More than 11,000 votes were cast last year in the overseers elections, all of which were handled by a special counting system in this office...
Supporting Cast...
Retrospectively one could be grateful to Walter Piston for the long, flowing lines in his Third Quartet, which opened the program. As a member of the Harvard music faculty, and thus a host with appropriate deference to his guests, he perhaps cast this work in a less massive and less ambitious mold than some of his other works. But here were the familiar urbanity and affability, and the unadventurous continuation of Romantic tradition, strikingly fused with a wholly contemporary, classical economy, and the accompanying sense of fitness and of the exact point of surfeit...
...Cast with Australian players, the level of acting falls below the high standard generally set in English pictures, yet the slight amateurism does not detract greatly from the overall effect of the picture. Chips Rafferty as the tall, gaunt trail boss, can both act and ride, giving an excellent picture of a single-minded bush rider. "The Overlanders" admirably combines simple historical fact with a feasible amount of action to become one of the few examples of a vivid and unprocessed documentary film. The only annoying moment during the picture is the indignant attempt of the Boston Censors to seratch...