Word: dramas
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...student who finished his undergraduate course in three years, took an M. A. in his fourth. His interests were always violently eclectic, never popular. He fancied French poets but abhorred the self-conscious readings at Charles Townsend ("Copey") Copeland's rooms, and shied away from the spectacular new drama courses of George Pierce Baker. Harvard scholars then had a Teutonic reverence for degrees, and after a graduate year in Paris Eliot returned to Harvard and worked for a Ph.D. in philosophy, studying Sanskrit and Pali on the side. His Ph.D. thesis on F. H. Bradley and Meinong...
Wilder discarded the possibility of a lack of interest in, or support of, the drama, as a plausible excuse for the decline of the theatre in Cambridge. "The mother of cooperation is merit," he said...
...group, of which Joseph Prescott 4G, an assistant in English, is the chairman, is attempting to "make obscure plays get up and walk around," while making the study of the drama congenial and amusing. Several men who inquired whether the group's study would be a help in passing their PhD's were unceremoniously dismissed...
Among the articles are two on Eliot's method in the drama by Francis O. Matthiessen, associate professor of History and Literature, and Theodore Spencer, assistant professor of English. Spencer writes on "Murder in the Cathedral" and Matthiessen's contribution is a "Note for an Unwritten Chapter" (of his "Achievement of T.S. Eliot...
...role of Cornelius Hackl who is getting away from it all for the first time in his life at the age of 33, is corking. June Walker, staunch old trooper, turns in an adequate performance and John Call, Joseph Sweeney, Bartlett Robinson (who looks startlingly like a Bennington drama boy), and Nydia Westman are all excellent in minor roles...