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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...From present building plans it seems likely that the college will soon have enough rooming facilities for all of its students. It seems likely, moreover, that a certain amount of suasion, if not compulsion, will be brought to bear to have students reside in Houses and Dormitories exclusively. If this should be the case, what are the clubs going to do with their clubhouses, which represent an investment of hundreds of thousands of dollars? Probably very few of these houses are endowed, and even those that are owned outright will be a terrific financial burden to their owners...
...necessity of eating a disproportionate number of lunches and dinners there. Since these are the meals which are normally the ones to be taken in clubs, or in some convenient location in the square or near a Boston theatre, no outstanding advantage is to be found in the present compromise...
...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...
...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...
...necessary in a complete university is growing more and more apparent. With the drama becoming of increasing importance as an intelligent means of expression. Harvard can not afford to continue in its attitude of haughty indifference to the value of the theatre as a cultural medium. Although at the present the proposed school can not be a part of the University, the identification of its supporters indicates that among the alumni there is a wide spread desire to perpetuate Harvard's dramatic prestige...