Word: severance
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Unverschamet, schamlos, albern (Impudent, shameless, and silly) West Virginia students sever diplomatic relations with Germany. Prosit...
...latter is atrocious. Although the make-up department has cleverly turned out a George Jean Nathan, an Alexander Woolcott, and an Orson Welles, these gentlemen's attempts at acting are deplorable, even when allowances are made for first-night stage-fright. Only the skill of John W. Sever '40, as Maxwell Anderson alias Mr. Puff, and the charm of Dorothe Larson of the Bishop Lec Dramatic School induce the audience to return to their seats after the intermission...
Unfortunately, very little credit for this performance can go to the Dramatic Club. The few lines that call for acting, such as Miss Spencer's "mad Ophelia" scene, are read by women, while the men in the cast are uniformly poor, always excepting Mr. Sever and possibly Jervis B. McMechan '42. Moreover the man responsible for the revision of the play, as well as its direction and staging, is Jack Munro, a 28-year-old Canadian actor and author who boasts "a crimson past but no connection with Harvard." In spite of this outside assistance, or quite possibly because...
...Atop Sever Hall workmen are converting an old storeroom into one of the University's finest lecture halls, which will go into commission next semester...
When the Bureau of Traffic Research deserted its quarters in Sever's attic and mover to Yale, the University decided to turn over what was waste space into a much-needed classroom. To head the new project the College chose Reginald H. Phelps '30, Assistant in History and in German and Assistant Dean...