Word: matthiessen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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After Miss Helen Maud Cam, Radcliffe Professor of History, and Frank Day Tuttle, professor of Drama at Smith College, extolled the work of the Arts Theater at Cambridge University, England, and of the active drama department at Smith, F. O. Matthiessen, professor of History and Literature, and Brattle Theater Director Jerome T. Kilty '49, came to the defense of dramatic activity at Harvard. Kilty claimed University support and guidance a necessary factor but said he felt a separate dramatic department would detract from the regular general Harvard education...
...Matthiessen Wants Theatre...
...Matthiessen especially urged the building of a theater here. Past presidents Lowell and Eliot refused to set up a theater and dramatic department, but Levin stated that there was a good chance that the present administration might pass a proposal for a theater...
Professor Harry T. Levin '33, chairman of the Comparative Literature Department, will moderate the program which treats the question, "Do we need a college theater?" Panel speakers will include Miss Helen Maud Cam, professor of History; professor F. O. Matthiessen of the English Department; Miss Rosamond Gilder, secretary of the American National Theater and Academy, member of the New York Drama Critics Circle, and former editor of the American Theater Arts Monthly; Rudolph Elie, critic and columnist for the Boston Herald; Frank Day Tuttle, professor of Drama at Smith College; and Jerry Kilty of the Brattle Theater Company, formerly with...
Other sponsors connected with the University are Ralph B. Perry, Edgar Pierce Professor of Philosophy, Emeritus, Albert S. Coolidge '15, lecturer in Chemistry, Robert Ulich, professor of Education, F. O. Matthiessen, professor of History and Literature, and John D. Wild, professor of Philosophy...