Word: chalkings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Band music blared through halls and locker rooms. Gold lettering on the carved plaques was obscured by heavy chalk slashes, proclaiming: "Beat Yale!" The rubber floor matting announced "Flog the Dog" in foot-high adhesive tape letters. The casual visitor to Dillon Field House would have been overwhelmed. These exhortations, however, were not designed to impress the casual visitor with the atmosphere and spirit at Harvard. Rather, they were directed at the football team, this week going through the practice routine for the last time this season. They were not window dressing appeals to "The Old College Try," but instead...
...current history course is so popular. Renaissance and Reformation--better known as "Ren and Ref"--overflowed two lecture halls this fall before it finally found one large enough. During class one of Gilmore's hands inevitably slips into a pocket while the other juggles a piece of chalk. His calmly-delivered lectures do not proceed chronologically, but roam topically instead...
...staying put is just one of the paradoxes of Muir's life, which has seen the boy who quit school at the age of 14 eventually become a distinguished professor. Thinking back to his early years, Muir recalls: "I disliked school from the start... with its smell of ink, chalk, slate, corduroy, and varnish. The classroom made me feel as if my head were stuffed with hot cotton-wool...
Thereafter, all the decorative oddities, all the artificial-comedy attitudes of The Chalk Garden prove a legitimate contrast and offset to a certain muted reality. Not without cost has the companion achieved a green thumb for people as well as plants, where the other characters all show gloved or clammy hands; not without reason has she been able to make things grow in a garden built on chalk...
Despite all the chalk, there is no lecture at the blackboard. There are a few too many whiffs of symbolism, but Playwright Bagnold is neither mystical nor didactic. Instead, after the fashion of all true high-comedy writing, something simply becomes the more touching for having seemed brittle, the more penetrating for having seemed fagade-like. The paper chase of upper-class antics and insolences does lead to the human heart; among so many blank-cartridged witticisms there are one or two real bullets...