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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...first visit to Harvard", he continued, "but it was my first visit to the Pudding. One doesn't find much warmth at your college, but rather an air of aloofness, which I like a great deal...
Professor Garrod carries on a pleasant tradition in setting aside an afternoon each week to meet and talk informally with men in the University. Scholars such as the Charles Eliot Norton chair brings to Cambridge have much to give which cannot find effective presentation in set lectures. The sort of education and culture which finds its highest expression in a cultivated social intercourse is admittedly more fully developed on the other side of the Atlantic than it is on this newer continent, and visiting professors can add richness and color to a college training by helping American educational institutions...
...Quincy we are finding it very difficult to play 'Strange Interlude' as it should be done. To begin with, we were accustomed to the small John Golden Theatre in New York, and find a motion picture theatre, which we are forced to use in Quincy, a bad place to put across our lines. Can you imagine shouting the asides of 'Strange Interlude' so as to make them heard in a barn of a theatre, after being accustomed to an auditorium of the most informal sort...
...drama more difficult", he continued. "If you are familiar with the structure of 'Strange Interlude', you know that O'Neill's characters speak their thoughts in asides, these thoughts coming between speeches of entirely different import. Our difficulty, after playing the parts so long, is that we find ourselves listening to the asides, which, being thoughts, are obviously not meant for us as persons in the play. The result is that, unless we watch ourselves closely, we are in danger of misreading our next lines. When the play began its run this break was not possible. Constant performance, however...
...Nevertheless, in deference to those students, not socialists, who find themselves embarrassed on one hand by the relations existing between Harvard University, which presumably prepares men to go out and create better civilization, and West Point, which trains men to sweep that civilization off the face of the earth, and on the other hand by the fact that the business department of the Harvard Athletic Association has invited here the West Point cadets in the name of the student body, no demonstration will take place...