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Archibald MacLeish, Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory, has suggested a "Public Arts" building, which would include facilities for experimental an other work in the fields of radio, television, motion pictures, and drama. The Student Council Theatre Committee recently endorsed MacLeish's proposal...
After a reading of the Student Council's report on theatrical conditions here by Warren Brody '53, head of the committee that studied the problem, Archibald MacLeish, Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory, Thornton Wilder, Charles Eliot Norton, Professor of Poetry, and Donald Oenslager '23, instructor in drama at Yale, discussed the place of a theatre here...
...MacLeish said that people today, including students, are taking a greater interest in literature, especially plays. He claimed that plays are meant to be seen, concluding that a theatre here would forward experimentation in the art of drama and afford it useful study and criticism...
...MacLeish replied that "I feel as you do about the oath (of allegiance)...I think it is when the oath is used in what appears to be an invidious way that my back hair begins to go up...If an oath of the kind you advocate is desirable in the case of certain professions, why not in the case of all citizens...
Earl replied to MacLeish last night with a letter which stated that "Frankly I do advocate an oath for all citizens," and which suggested a national identity registration similar to that used in Britain during the last...