Word: semis
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...spoon in its mouth--before the first foundation was dug, its planners had agreed it would serve well as the capital of this infant colony. Deputy Gov. Thomas Dudley and Gov. John Winthrop led the first expedition, described by historian Thomas Wentworth Higginson at the 250th anniversary as a "semi-military picnic." They picked this bend in the Charles for the governmental seat because it seemed far enough inland to be safe from naval attack, but could be easily defended against overland aggression. And they agreed, along with about ten other officers of the colony, that they would build homes...
...last two years, the five subcommittees--one for each core division--have met on a semi-regular basis to review professors' course proposals. They examined proposed syllabi and reading lists, compared suggested course outlines with the Core guidelines, and often recommended ways to change the proposals so that they conformed with Core rules. The subcommittees frequently returned proposals to professors for revision. When a subcommittee found a course idea to its liking, it passed it along to the Core standing committee, which often sent proposals back to the subcommittees for reworking and occasionally rejected ideas outright. In the first year...
...Katherine Ashton's article on Blaridge's Theatre (What Is To Be Done?, Sept. 18); after all, any publicity is good publicity. Nevertheless, I was mystified by a few assertions she presented as commonplace truths, and somewhat annoyed at her out-of-hand dismissal of the idea of a semi-repertory company, a dismissal based, I think, on flimsy reasoning...
Second, Ashton says that "A semi-repertory company is usually weak." This comes as a bit of a surprise; I don't know about Ashton, but until I helped start Blaridge's, I was quite sure such a thing did not exist. It is hard to say, therefore, whether such companies are "usually" weak or strong...
...understand Ashton's reasoning correctly, we can neither have a repertory company, nor a semi-rep, nor can we produce individual shows, lest we fall into the pit of unpopularity occupied by the Ex and the Quad Houses. This position is unfair to us, to the Ex and to the house drama societies but, more importantly, it is unfair to Harvard audiences. The Crimson may think there is too much student drama; we at Blaridge's are convinced the best is yet to come. Michael Kaplan