Word: production
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...play itself--a product of Professor Baker's Harvard Workshop--though bearing many marks of inexperience, has some decided merits which justify the expectation of still better work from the author in the near future. If in a good many of its details it is more suggestive of clever moulding upon established modes than of original invention, the main theme is fresh and timely, is worked out with considerable ingenuity and a clear sense of dramatic situation up to the final climax and catastrophe, which are fairly logical, if not altogether convincing or inevitable...
...Makers of Light" is a product straight from Harvard's famous English 47. It had two special performances at the Workshop in Cambridge and was received with acclaim by the specialists there assembled: From the New York Times...
This week New York is to see another product of 47. The Neighborhood Play house is experimenting with "Makers of Light", the tragedy by Frederick Lansing Day which was the Workshop's second production this year. The play deserves to go well with the special Playhouse audience; but it is difficult to predict a reception for it elsewhere...
...which says: "President Lowell of Harvard University was most eloquent and most intense when he talked to me a little while ago about the absurdity of judging the education of a college graduate by the number of credits he had--certificates of buttons pushed. The test of a college product is not 'what has he done?' but what has he become...
...true test is whether a man has developed or not while in college; if the college product "is in the tangible form of human character and service," as Chancellor Brown of New York University recently said; then it is possible to draw some conclusions concerning the much-discussed 'extra-curriculum' activities. Someone remarked not long ago that a "grad" returns to see classmates, not to refresh his memory (if any) of Horace. Mr. Gavit says that "the student's becoming depends on the kind of men he comes in contact with...