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Word: needful (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...contention that a shift from club or fraternity houses to the rooms offered by the House System will work an even greater hardship little need be said. President Lowell has repeatedly pointed out that men are not to be forced to enter the Houses. If it so develops that the atmosphere in the Houses is such to attract men to them, the extinction of the clubs involved will be but another example of the sound principal of survival of the fittest...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CLUBS IN THE HOUSE PLAN | 12/7/1929 | See Source »

...give Harvard a practical school of the theatre was begun in order that the gap left by the departure of George Pierce Baker and his 47 Workshop might be filled. Tonight's meeting was the culmination of a long period of work by Harvard undergraduates who felt the need of such a school, and have been engaged for several months in sounding the student body of the University with regard to the possible, establishment of such a course of study. The plans which were completed tonight call for a course to be given during the second half year...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: School of the Theatre is to be Established Here in Cambridge | 12/6/1929 | See Source »

...provision of a headquarters for foreign men and their friends which will be always at their disposal is calculated to supply the need of such men for a common meeting ground for social contacts. Its permanent and informal character will allow an easier interchange than is at present possible in the sporadic formal entertainments of the Council...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE P. B. H. COUNCIL | 12/6/1929 | See Source »

...projected school is obviously founded on the feeling of the Harvard student body that there is a need for an outlet for dramatic expression in Cambridge. The University has offered no adequate means to develop this latent desire for instruction in the theatrical arts, and the present scheme will include those who have felt strongly the lack of this essential...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE SLEEPER WAKES | 12/6/1929 | See Source »

Claire Adams depicts the Jobian trials of a young newspaperman who is persuaded by his bride to leave spacious Waco, Tex., for a one-room flat in Manhattan. The city's restless vastitude soon undermines his ambition; he is unable to write his novel, is too frequently in need of sleep. Meanwhile his wife experiments with a wealthy fellow, gets in deeper and deeper, is finally implicated in a knife murder which her husband is sent to report. It is a sordid, ordinary tragedy, conceived and acted without much imagination. A Primer for Lovers. Playwright William Hurlbut once concerned...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Dec. 2, 1929 | 12/2/1929 | See Source »

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