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...passages of Professor MacLeish's "Preliminary Statement of Purpose" for the Harvard Theatre, though very generally worded, raise uneasy questions about the degree of faculty control to be exercised in the new and more stately mansion. Even if Professor MacLeish's proposals for a permanent director and standing committee of the faculty to run the theatre are adopted, the new theatre should be run according to the same general policy as the present ones...
...able to reject plays unless "it is satisfied that the plays proposed meet the standards this university should maintain." "Proposals for the production of plays may originate with student groups, with members of the University faculties, with members of the Cambridge community or with the standing committee." If Professor MacLeish's statement is adopted, the faculty and its committee should use these powers of proposing and rejecting with discretion, i.e. seldom or never, keeping them in reserve should emergencies occur or spontaneous student interest decline...
Faculty control has a valuable function to serve in scheduling the college and community groups who will want to use the theatre. But under Professor MacLeish's program or under any other system, "aesthetic autonomy" is desirable as long as Harvard students show their present ability to make it work...
...Spring term course on Henry Fielding and two Fall term courses, dealing with the works of Chaucer and James Joyce, will be offered by the English Department. The courses will be taught by John M. Bullitt '43, associate professor of English, B. J. Whiting '25, professor of English, and Harry T. Levin '33, professor of English...
Also Ernest R. May, assistant professor of History; David C. McClelland, professor of Psychology; John R. Meyer '51, assistant professor of Economics; Miss Pauline A. Miller, research associate in Bacteriology; Reginald H. Phelps '30, associate dean of the School of Arts and Sciences; Isreal Scheffler, lecturer on Education; and Amos N. Wilder, Hollis Professor of Divinity, were recipients of the award...