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...HDC, currently some $300 in debt, at the time it adopted its new institution in February to be financed series of Loeb benefits. A fact sheet out then by sponsors of the said that it was "extremely that the Loeb can maintain a fund benefit performances with which the can produce shows outside...
Neither Chapman nor several members of the Harvard Dramatic Club had any concreto idea about who was doing the stealing. John H. Anderson '66, a member of the HDC executive committee, said, however, that the thought the thieves were people who live in the neighborhood of the Loeb. Hamlin emphasized that the thieves were probably "people who don't belong at the Loeb...
...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...
...highlighted the irrelevance of the traditional controversy about the Loeb. It appears that the critics of Faculty control have been worrying about a largely theoretical danger. When and if the Faculty does forbid a reasonable and imaginative project--then it will be time to fight. But if the HDC is to revitalize Harvard theatre, it must turn now from institutional to dramatic concerns...