Word: plays
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...four men who will play for Harvard are Captain Jack Barr, Henry Thompson, Ace Cordingly, and Bob Graves. The match will be a four man affair instead of the usual six because the New Yorkers have only four men on their team...
...H.A.A. close to $10,000 to support intercollegiate tennis and squash squads. . . ." This is, although I am sure not deliberately, a definite misstatement of fact. The facts are: (a) The $10,000 includes all coaches' salaries as well as intercollegiate expenses. (b) Over half the members of the squads play House squash and tennis. Please charge $5000 to the Houses. (c) To retain the coaches and eliminate intercollegiate events would save not more than $1400 per year. This includes four teams: Varsity and Freshman tennis and squash. There are between 35 and 40 men on these teams...
...brilliant success of the show the cast is mainly responsible. Their enthusiasm, their esprit de corps, their sense of comedy, all made the audience forget they didn't know Greek and have a grand time anyway watching some of the best horse-play this side of Broadway, a Sophic Tucker version of a Greek poem, an angel on roller-skates, a Heracles in striped pyjamas, and above all, Harvard as the Cloudcuckootown! Backing up the cast was an original musical score and masks, costumes, backdrops, done with skill and rare humor. Congratulations should also go to a gentleman named Aristophanes...
...Puritan's Progress" unfolds the plight of an "A" student who falls into the toils of a buxom Dorchester lass. To be blunt, and the play is, he has to marry her. To his rescue comes Uncle Joe Whipple, erstwhile Beacon Hill Harvardian who has spent his post-college life in the Yukon. Uncle Joe lays $50,000 in gold on the line if young Whipple gets kicked out and marries Dorchester's Polly Dugan. Whip tries hard, aided by his room-mates. But something always comes up to change the whole aspect of his misdemeanors...
...this phonograph records shattered over heads, beer cans galore, a bottle of potent Yukon "Cutchaw," and you have, as "The Puritan's Progress" had, material for any number of Harvard House plays. It is profane, original, and as modern as the Daily Record, in whose columns it might well run as a serial story. Which is just about what a good House play ought...