Word: macleish
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Indicating that Harvard is always in a period of evolution, Archibald MacLeish in his article "The Next Harvard" in the current "Atlantic" presents and comments upon the present changes and future trends in the life of the University...
...time has come, according to MacLeish, when Harvard must admit that it has reached the peak of its expansion, and that it must organize itself within existing frontiers rather than expanding its present limits. The swing toward specialization and isolation of knowledge in one field has come to an end. Fields are becoming increasingly coordinated with each other, and the cooperation has led to great advancement in learning...
Founded by Archibald MacLeish, the radio stations, included in which is the third year of steady growth. Through its regular College outlet, the Crimson Network, the group now produces an original broadcast every week, and has become the first extra-curricular organization to have its work recognized by the Faculty. The English A and A-1 departments have recently indicated their willingness to give credit for Workshop plays...
When poet Archibald MacLeish founded the Harvard Radio Workshop, he expected undergraduates to get from this experimental group the experience which, as much as talent, is needed to break into network scripting. But FDR called Archy to Washington, and the Radio Workshop like other creative groups in the College was left with little Faculty contact or support. True to its traditions, it seemed that the English Department was about to tell radio drama (as it once told Professor Baker's stage drama) to go to Yale...
...democracy is never a thing done. Democracy is always something that a nation must be doing. . . . What is necessary now is one thing and one thing only . . . that democracy become again democracy in action, not democracy accomplished and piled up in goods and gold." Such democracy, promises Librarian MacLeish, "is a cause for which the stones themselves will fight...