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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...modification of their normal undergraduate activities. The resumption of customary College life after the War seems, then, the logical jumping-off point for this article--especially since the history of Harvard theatre up to the War has been retold many times, while its course from the War to the present has not yet been chronicled...

Author: By Caldwell Titcomb, | Title: College Post-War Student Theatre: 332 Shows Staged by 47 Groups | 10/2/1958 | See Source »

...same week, HDC president Peter L. Shoup '55 announced the founding of its New Theatre Workshop, whose main purpose was to present, on a budget of between $10 and $25 each, live productions of plays written by students. For the first time in many years, the student playwright was accorded formal recognition, encouragement, and an outlet through which he could obtain, as Archibald MacLeish has said, the necessary experience of feeling "the blush of shame" that comes when he sees his own work produced. The Workshop has continued right up to the present and has fulfilled its mission admirably...

Author: By Caldwell Titcomb, | Title: College Post-War Student Theatre: 332 Shows Staged by 47 Groups | 10/2/1958 | See Source »

...present the Council receives its only income in contributions from the student body, and mainly from freshmen. The reasons for this, Leland explained, are that freshmen contribute more than upperclassmen to all drives, and that upperclassmen realize that they will "receive benefits from the Council whether they contribute...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Council Asks Dean to Give Financial Aid | 10/2/1958 | See Source »

Sarbanes said he would favour a policy of inquiring whether home-owners are willing to rent to non-whites and of refusing to list those who admit to discrimination. According to present procedure, Sarbane explained, the Housing Registry does not directly ask landlords whether they discriminate...

Author: By Martha E. Miller, | Title: PBH to Fight Prejudice In Room Listing | 10/2/1958 | See Source »

...duty. He then went to Yale, which afforded its own peculiar opportunities. While at Yale, for instance, Labaree shared in several abortive attempts to establish a student council, and later participated in the movement to bring the N.S.A. to New Haven (which seems ample preparation for coping with the present term at Harvard...

Author: By John B. Radner, | Title: Winthrop Colonial | 10/2/1958 | See Source »

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