Word: groups
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Adams House Dramatic Society has announced a playwriting contest with the winning script to be produced by the group next Fall. "We are conscious of Harvard's need to encourage student playwrights and challenge student directors, and accordingly are offering $150 for the winning entry," a member of the Society said...
...following translation of an article appearing in the Soviet magazine Ogonek was made by Kent Geiger, an assistant professor of sociology at Tufts and presently a Research Fellow in the Harvard Russian Research Center. Geiger was the leader of the Experiment in International Living sub-group of the 41 U. S. students visiting Russia as part of the Cultural Exchange Program. Several Harvard and Radcliffe students were on the exchange; some are quoted in the article, although Geiger warns that such quotes, like other elements, have been skillfully distorted. Geiger's summary, which points up some of the chief themes...
James M. Bardeen '60, former president, said last night that the HLU makes all policy decisions, but can not declare publicly its policy on local or state issues without the approval of the parent group. He admitted, however, that there is some concern among members that the requirement may endanger the group's status in the College, and he said that he and club members are planning to consult Dean Watson about the matter...
There are countless arguments both for and against expansion: that Harvard has an obligation to educate as many people as possible; that it should try instead to give the best possible education to a limited number; that a large group can be taught more economically than a small one; that the present organization of the College would break down if it were enlarged substantially. Similarly, nobody is quite sure how much expansion of labs, classrooms, and libraries should accompany the building of whatever new Houses and dorms may be constructed...
...easy to spot what is wrong with Puntila, but the satisfactions of the evening, except for certain beautiful erotic-comic passages, are harder to pin-point. The play is based on a group of Finnish stories, and it manages to achieve a vaguely Finnish atmosphere: bracing and sparse. The series of unpretentious, easily-changeable settings (designed by Robert Skinner and Lorna Kreuger) have a good deal to do with this; the backdrops for successive scenes are frankly mounted on a large picture frame, and the effect is never more Brechtian than when substantial sections look as if they were made...