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Action on the theatre arts project followed a statement Sunday by Archibald MacLeish, Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory, advocating a graduate followship plan in theatre and public arts and a theatre workshop...
Harvard's need for a theatre is an old story, but until this year people did little more than talk about it. Now Archibald MacLeish has advanced a plan, based on the Nieman Fellowships, that could be applied to the fields of drama, motion pictures, radio, and television. This fellowship plan could only be carried out if there were a theatre to serve as its center of activity...
...MacLeish added that this relationship has been created "not through a professional school of journalism ... but through the presence of working news papermen in the University community...
...possible to plan now for the financing and construction of such a theatre and fellowship setup, but full discussion of the project is surely not premature; if anything, it is belated," said MacLeish...
Currently, Nieman Fellowships provide one year of study at Harvard for 12 of the nation's young reporters, editors, and publishers. These fellowships, says MacLeish, have "created a relationship between the University and the Press . . ." that has had "a marked and welcome influence on faculty and undergraduates alike...