Word: harvardized
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...review of the work of the Baker Library in the Harvard Business School upon the attainment of its twentieth birthday reveals a startling contrast between the well-appointed building of to day and the beginnings of the Library when it was a small part of the College Library...
There have been rumblings presaging serious dramatic activity at Harvard ever since the famous Forty Seven Workshop was discontinued. Within the last year these innuendos have gathered momentum and the chances for a revival of a former dramatic glory is looming up with a considerable show of realism. Although nothing definite has appeared, the general undergraduate feeling has certainly grown stronger, and it should be but a matter of time until something material is produced...
With the situation here in its present uncertain state, many men of distinct dramatic talent are discouraged from coming to this supposedly anti-theatrical college. There is a growing belief that Harvard is neglecting one of the major outlets of human expression, and in a civilization so obviously effected by the theatre as that of the present day, this impression can not continue without ultimately retarding the progress of the University...
Once in a not too distant past Harvard did look favorably upon the theatrical arts. This is demonstrable by the fact that the present American stage is largely controlled by former members of the Forty Seven Workshop. The ante-dated conservative atmosphere which the teaching of the drama has now assumed at Harvard indicates that its present predominance in the theatre can not help but be short lived...
...criticism will be heard of the names of the first two Houses. Dunster for Harvard's first president and Lowell for its latest. The names have long been honorably associated with things Cantabrigian. The announcement of the masters-to-be of the third and fourth Houses will also please Harvard men. Robert B. ("Frisky") Merriman '96, and Edward A. Whitney '17, although of different generations, are both members of the faculty who have long taken an advisory part in undergraduate life outside of their professional interests. Boston Herald