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Somewhere along the line, my sprint to Greater Understanding had staggered to a bloated shuffle through brunches at the Signet, lunches with deans and general counsels atop Holyoke Center, some wining at the Faculty Club and some dining on steaming Quiche Lorraine at Chez Dreyfus. I had watched with detachment the luxuriant erosion of folks who lived the good life for a living...
...doesn't take a Harvard education or membership in the Signet Society to tell you that what goes on in the Hasty Pudding Show is sort of the antithesis of "legitimate" musical comedy; that you're not supposed to go in expecting anything other than what you got the year before, in a snazzy, schmaltzy new package; that a lot of people around here like to go the show every year for the same reason they like to sit through the Harvard-Yale game every year ("School Spirit," "Tradition," "Water on the Brain"); that, my dream notwithstanding, there are always...
...Fairbank did not always have this sense of mission. His stumbling onto the continent was in fact pure chance, a sort of accident of history. During lunch one day at the Signet, Fairbank, the Harvard undergrad studying English trade history, happened to hear Sir Charles Webster, the British historian just back from Kyoto, say that a new archive on 19th-century Chinese history had been opened in Peking. Fairbank decided that it was worth spending half of his Rhodes scholarship to take a look. Wilma C. Fairbank, then his wife-to-be, recalls that one of his classmates said...
Great stories never die. They get reborn on stage. Part of Shakespeare's genius, as any good reader of the "Sources" section of Signet editions knows, was to find the dramatic in someone else's plot. An academician will tell you there is universal meaning and appeal in great works of art. As if to test that definition, playwrights have frequently adapted recongnized greats to new settings and genres. This spring Harvard dramatics offers all kinds of adaptations: Antigone is transported to a troubled Latin American nation and "Wherefore art thou" is put to music. Adaptations are a recognized...
Phillips Brooks House will receive a $5000 grant and The Signet Society will receive...