Word: harvard
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Young Sebastian Bannon, who likes the sea better than Harvard Law School, ships aboard the Gloucester halibut-trawler Susan Dillon for the winter voyage, greenest of a crew of unanimous goldenhearts. Of sailing, the weathers of the winter sea, the fishing itself, physical action and hardship, he gives a rimy, brilliant account. In the best pages of the book Sebastian, lost at sea, rows his dead dory-mate 100 miles to land, his hands frozen to the oars. He and his rescuer, a young woman, are marooned on (and rescued from) a somewhat Melvilleian iceberg which mystically wanders...
Since 1929 when Professor Pierce Baker and his "47 workshop" were cold-shouldered by the Lowell administration and sought refuge at Yale, dramatics at Harvard have been living from hand to mouth. Three times alumni have offered to build a School of Dramatic Arts, and each time the University reechoed "the theatre has no place in the life of Harvard students." More interest has been focused upon the stage than ever before--upon experiment and student playwriting by the Dramatic Club, upon skits and plays of social comment by the Student Union, upon more and more productions by the Houses...
With its handsomely equipped School of Dramatic Arts, or its McCarter Theatre, Yale and Princeton must look towards their Cambridge crony with pity. Harvard still inclines to a tradition of "pure" liberal arts, devoid of much practical application. But long ago colleges realized each subject can grow only in its own medium, that to write drama for an English composition course--and yet keep it divorced from the stage--is like reading chemistry without carrying on laboratory experiments. Playwrights like Sidney Howard, Eugene O'Neill and Philip Barry thrived under Professor Baker because the workshop tested their lines through informal...
Refusing to believe that Harvard must always be without a School of Dramatic Arts, undergraduates vaguely hope for the time when a complete unit comprising stage, shops, and class-rooms will grace the College. In the meantime, concrete steps can easily be taken. Through a composition course in playwriting, undergraduates could test their work in collaboration with the Dramatic Club and produce informally for their own practice and self-criticism. Another course, devoted to acting, might correlate all the odds and ends of drama now spread over the English Department. A third, given by the Fine Arts Department, would concentrate...
...hundred and one undergraduates who attained marked excellence in their work during the past academic year have been awarded Honorary Harvard College Scholarships for the current academic year, as follows...