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Fortunately for Conant, back in 1934, an occasion for popularizing and for raising money for his new idea was approaching--the 1936 Tercentenary Celebration. He was shortly to announce the formation of a Three Hundredth Anniversary Fund one of the purposes of which was to raise money for university professorships...
Leverett House had the noble idea of honoring Shaw's hundredth birthday by performing two of his one-act plays. Although neither is more than mediocre, enthusiastic acting often makes a potentially plain evening bright...
Colgate Salsbury '57 of Kirkland House has been chosen to play the lead in the Harvard Dramatic Club's one hundredth production, Shakespeare's Hamlet. Brian Falk of the Graduate School of Design will play Claudius in the production, which is planned for a Dec. 13 opening in Sanders Theatre...
...pudding tours have not had quite so disasterous culminations as this one, but in the long run, they have proved to be consistent money-losers. For instance, when the Pudding produced their hundredth show "Here's the Pitch," in 1948, the producers decided to celebrate. They sent the play to every big city east of the Mississippi, and ended up with a deficit of over $13,000. Since then, the Pudding has attempted to curtail such ambition...
...thousands of dollars poured into propagation of this theme can perhaps be considered pump priming for the University' parched treasury. More than one Columbia professor has pointed out unashamedly that the financial advantages of a two hundredth anniversary are too much to be entirely ignored or forgotten. Moreover, they say, Harvard legitimized anniversary appeals for funds by its own campaign during its Tercentenary in 1936. But there would seem to be little evidence to back the view that Columbia is only advertising itself. The prime consideration of the administration has not been with money but with spreading its theme...