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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Critics agreed in their pre-reviews that Harvard was indeed fortunate in having secured the services of these two masters of theatre; yet it must have seemed to the audience at Brattle Hall yesterday evening that the two were unsuccessful collaborators. There is a flavor to the work of this fellow Shakespeare as his past productions have taught the theatre-going public which suffers from dilution. As a rule his work lacks the zip and go of most modern drama. It is powerful stuff. But here, in conjunction with the more American touches of Mr. Massey its tempo seems slow...
Tomorrow the Crimson oarsmen will have their final pre-race test over the Basin course. Last Saturday the second crew beat the first but the heavy University shell should regain its former status tomorrow. On Saturday three men were in new positions, and the crew never settled down, being somewhat out of time at the finish. The second crew is steadily improving and should give the Annapolis "jayvees" a great battle. The Navy seconds beat Pennsylvania by two lengths last Saturday, while the Red and Blue University eight was trailing by five lengths. A victory for the Watts stroked shell...
...following pre-review of "The Taming of the Shrew" was written especially for the Crimson by Ralph Bunker '10, formerly instructor in Voice Technique and Public Speaking at Harvard, and now playing the part of Winkle in "Pickwick" at the Majestic Theatre in Boston. While at Harvard Mr. Bunker acted in the Dramatic Club, the Hasty Pudding Club, and the Pi Eta Club productions...
Young Men In Love is another tale of those extravagantly "sporting" English highbreds whose fortunes are rivaled in calibre only by their misfortunes. .(The main characters are six-three of the pre-War generation: "Serle, the politician; Townleigh, the Newspaner Magnate; Vardon, the Financier. Let us call them, merely to be dramatic 'and to please the public, the three horsemen of the Apocalypse...
Following closely upon the adoption here of the pre-examination respite, this program of the Yale authorities indicates the trend of though in modern American education. Generally guided by English models whose worth has been proved through centuries as Oxford and Cambridge America is gradually arriving at a same and supremely practical plan that testers the intellectual growth of the ambitions student and at the same time tends to eliminate the haugers-on who encumber the colleges. Education is after all a matter of and for the individual, and the educational trend of the present day shows an endeavor...