Word: profs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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This fall, when the Harvard authorities came to the conclusion that the space occupied by Prof. George Pierce Baker and his famed school of dramatic technique, the 47 Workshop, had best be reconverted from studios to bed rooms, the Workshop closed for the year, Prof. Baker set off for a well-earned sabbatical, and the Crimson (undergraduate daily) scored the authorities for "polished neglect" of Prof. Baker and his work. Nothing notable in this situation-until, last week, adroitly timed as such things usually are, a windfall landed in the lap of Yale University. Edward S. Harkness, Manhattan Maecenas, gave...
Yale men speculated upon the future of their new school. Recent efforts of the Yale Dramatic Association had fostered an interest in the stage which could now expand enormously. Dean Everett B. Meeks of the Art School went promptly to work with a committee to plan buildings. Prof. Baker intimated that there would be a prize for the annual Yale play and Yale men recalled how plays from the 47 Workshop had reached Broadway, how Workshop graduates had become famed playwrights...
...glorious theatre, based on the junction of art and philosophy, is about to give rise to a fresh Renaissance in the drama" said Prof. DeBosis, visiting Italian dramatist, speaking last night in Emerson D on "The Italian Theatre...
Some months ago, Prof. Adolf Miethe of the Charlottenburg Technical College, Berlin, was experimenting to determine the effect of violet electric rays upon mercury vapor. Using a quartz lamp, a current of about 170 volts and a low amperage and about half an ounce of mercury vapor, he was surprised to find, after about 200 hours of operation, that the mechanism was out of order. He opened the lamp and found that the inside was coated with a thin, black film. Scraping off some of the film, he analysed it and discovered it to be gold. The experiment was repeated...
There was the voice of Dr. William P. Merrill, peacemaker, of Dr. Harry Emerson Fosdick, the passionately indignant, of Prof. James T. Shotwell, economico-encyclopaedic, of Kirby Page, phrasemaker, of Justice John H. Clarke, venerable apostle, of Stephen Wise, the organ-toned, of an hysterical Mexican, of distinguished editors and ex-editors. Their theme was Peace. Their meeting-ground was enclosed with ample sign: American Council of the World Alliance for International Friendship Through the Churches...