Word: etas
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Latin, and burlesque musicals. The former were produced by a number of Classics clubs, while the latter flourished among a seemingly endless series of social and theatrical organizations. Some like the Harvard Theatricals and Sophomore Theatricals produced one or two shows and folded. Others were more successful. Pi Eta produced an annual musical from 1870 through 1941 and Hasty Pudding Theatricals have run with uninterrupted success since...
...become a final club, each organization merely decreed that its members could not join another final club. Other clubs, like Hasty Pudding or its rival in the class elections, Pi Eta, were considered "waiting clubs," and a man could join any number of these as well as all other organizations...
Besides Hasty Pudding and Pi Eta, there are three other non-final social clubs in the College, Speakers, S.A.E. and the N.C. S.A.E., the only fraternity which has survived at Harvard, is affiliated with the national organization, but has successfully petitioned that its rules be freer, particularly as to discriminatory clauses. As a result, S.A.E. at Harvard has no race or religious restrictions. The N.C. club was first begun in 1940 and resurrected after the war. It is the "No Club" club, lists itself as a secret organization, and meets occasionally in the rooms of its members, in Dunster...
...need for a theatre has been a long-standing one, and undergraduate drama has suffered from lack of it. The facilities now available, Sanders Theatre, Pi Eta, Fogg Court and the like, are pitiful and have had much to do with the recent decline in both undergraduate theatrical activity and student interest. The new building will provide a strong stimulus to both these factors in the equation...
Chapman pointed to the great effect which a new, well-equipped theatre will have on the quality of undergraduate pro- ductions and, through them, on student interest in local theatre. He stressed the pitiful inadequacy of the present facilities, namely Pi Eta, Sanders; Agassiz, and Fogg Court. "It's really hard to produce first rate plays in any of these places," he added...