Word: seriousness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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When it was announced that the Dramatic Club had turned to musical comedy there were many of us who thought it a mistake. The habit of looking to the Club for the few brave glimmers of serious dramatic art still tolerated in this cultural center had so grown upon us that such a drastic change seemed like the breaking of a cherished tradition. So we went to the dress rehearsal last night with a delicately balanced chip on our shoulder. But we came away smiling, eager to record that once when the Dramatic Club chose to be undramatic the result...
...them, and the fact that it is not yet anywhere near an exact science is no valid reason for its not being fostered by the Harvard curriculum. In fact the amorphousness in which most theories for race betterment now find themselves should be but a stronger incentive for serious efforts toward research and instruction. It is a challenge to any honest educational institution which wishes to acquaint its students with a knowledge of the world as it is known to the best minds of the times...
...Devil of able, quick, dramatic Louis Auguste Gustave Doré which is most famed today. The jeunesse Doré was lightly employed in drawing for Parisian magazines, notably Journal pour Rire. But Doré, an excellent draughtsman, had his serious moments. In the France where he lived (1832-83), Satanism was in the air. There was Baudelaire, whose hero was Milton's heroic Satan, and there was Huysmans who had studied the Black Mass. It was fashionable to wear black clothes and look mysterious. Doré, too, turned to Satan, but objectively. He illustrated Dante's Inferno...
President Quincy's discourse was an interesting revelation of the early history of the College. There was a happy mixture of graceful good rumor mingled with the more serious matter of Mr. Quincy's essay and a general smile lit up the countenances of the audience to whom bequests of thousands of dollars were familiar, to hear him read records of donations to the College of an iron spoon and pewter cup, or similar articles. Most or the ladies rushed from the house to see the procession move to the Pavilion, a few, perhaps half a dozen, were detained accidentally...
Whatever results the thoroughly advertised book guilds may have had by and large, they have not made Trinity College undergraduates read serious books in their spare time. But Dr. Cadman's daily counsel got under someone's skin and now every man in the Hartford school will read a good back. In fact, throughout the year each student is going to read a great number of good books selected from a list of recommended works. There is no connection between this requirement and any course. On the contrary, it is outside reading for pleasure--with two pages of typed notes...