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...feel that the Dramatic Club has by any means departed from its traditional policy, which has never been notably rigid: on the contrary, the club in many respects has come nearer to its former policy than has been the case for several productions. The CRIMSON has already lauded the return to complete amateurism which "Close-Up" will introduce. After a lapse of several years, the club has again chosen the work of an undergraduate author. The objection of the critics must, therefore, be that the Spring production is to be a musical comedy...
Unsatisfactory though the recent phase of the Club's productions may have been, it was at least nearer maintaining a serious and meritorious drama at Harvard than the latest policy can be. Admitted that the motive of staging dramas for the first time is commendable, and that the box-office approves of the show in syncopated measure, there must be some recourse other than that of this spring. The value of the Club that could give American premieres in the same season of plays by Goldoni and Capek has been immense. It need not descend to a stereotyped school...
Each successive year the demands of the tired business man have brought the attire of the chorus girl nearer the dead line, but now with the revival of "The Black Crook" by Christopher Morely the bald headed row is at last given an opportunity to sit back and catch its breath. Absolute nudity is the limit of revelation, and the modern developments were approaching it with a dangerous speed. The day is saved, however, by Mr. Morley. The tide has been turned before it was too late...
...that extra-curricular activities exist for other ends beside the mere accomplishment of office routine, the plan would have no apparent flaw. But the function and benefits of these undergraduate activities are so essentially divorced from the idea of formal instruction that any move to bring the two nearer together very much resembles an encroachment. Far more ultimate good is to be had from the self-teaching and individual assertion of free leaders than from the more systematic attention to detail possible under the long arm of the faculty. When undergraduate athletics become too large a responsibility for undergraduate direction...
...hours. Objectors argued that Chicago would have to put its clocks two hours ahead of the present schedule when New York goes on daylight saving time, early risers would get out of bed in darkness. Furthermore, keeping time with New York would involve time conflicts with Chicago's nearer friends, Omaha, Minneapolis, St. Louis, Kansas City...