Word: hdc
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Confronted with a virtual coup d'etat last month, the HDC membership responded as expected. When five undergraduates announced their self-appointment as a non-elective, self-perpetuating executive committee that would select all mainstage plays, it was a new version of the old nightmare. Faculty influence was suspected: "Chapman and Hamlin are probably behind this, you know;" "The committee will be a pawn of the Faculty within a few years...
...when the word came down that "the Faculty won't compromise"--that it wouldn't accept an elective committee--then the HDC membership proved strangely acquiescent, and approved the constitution, 39-1. "It's this or nothing," people said. "We'd better try it." And there was the unspoken suggestion that if the HDC humbled itself at last, the Faculty and the executive committee would lead it out of the wilderness. Special benefits were promised to HDC members. The Faculty Committee, it was announced, would grant the club the proceeds from a night's performance of a mainstage production, "when...
...constitution isn't going to solve any problems by itself. And if the HDC has merely moved from resistance to control to blind faith in organization, it will be worse off than before. But it is unlikely it has. Even after the ratification of the constitution, one faction forced through an amendment that made the membership's veto power a reality. Politics serves a symbolic function in Harvard drama, and that spirit of dissent represents the potential for artistic innovation...
Under the proposed constitution, the five-man executive committee would choose all plays for production in the Loeb. George Hamlin, associate director of the Loeb, Chapman, and the president of the HDC would meet with the committee, but none of those three would vote...
...install it in the Loeb. But the more existence of the Loeb Drama Center does not demand or justify the addition of professional acting courses in the undergraduate curriculum any more than the existence of oldiers Field demands professional football. Joel F. Henning '61 President, HDC...