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...This, the greatest university in the world, is without sufficient auditorium facilities. Drama productions, the Law School Forums, and popular lectures are given under severe handicaps," MacLeish said yesterday...
...MacLeish cited examples of large audiences unable to obtain seats or enduring great discomfort at recent lectures given by Eleanor Roosevelt, Carl Sandburg, Bertrand Russell, and T. S. Eliot. "Certainly no university wishes to deprive its students of such experiences as these," MacLeish said...
Archibald MacLeish, Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory, has sponsored a resolution to investigate the "desirability of providing an adequate auditorium for Harvard." The resolution has received the unanimous approval of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences...
...MacLeish said that should the project be realized, University fostered participation in drama and music, and in the future, radio and television, should be encouraged. "This participation should not be of a technical nature"; MacLeish said, "but neither can the University afford to be indifferent to these media of mass communication...
Before Selective Service appeared in October of 1940, the College had heard President Conant and Archibald MacLeish, then Librarian of Congress, tell the students to continue with their studies and prepare for the future by doing their best...