Word: students
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...position of that organization in relation to its spring production. He freely admits the desirability of the ideals laid down by critics of the policy of the club. But he points out the difficulties which arise on the way to their attainment. He admits, as has been pointed, that student authorship of the productions is desirable, but adequately explains why this has been so often impossible in the past. The other point made by the CRIMSON and several of its correspondents that emphasis on the money value of undergraduate productions should not weigh too heavily in their selection is also...
...merit, the plays have not been of the kind which local censors could witness unblushingly. Since the days of Professor George P. Baker, Harvard College has taken little or no notice of the drama as a field of instruction until quite recently, with the result that the quality of student dramatic literature has suffered deplorably; and yet the Dramatic Club is criticised for not producing undergraduate plays...
...Harvard University has outstripped all others in the direction of original student composition. While its series of revivals has been less remarkable than those of several other universities, its playwriting activity, under the unusually able direction of Georgo Pierce Baker, has been unique. Professor Baker offers a two-year course in dramatic composition, the personnel of the class being decided by a competition of original play manuscripts. In connection with the study of the composition and , the actual writing of plays, there has developed the 'Forty-seven Workshop' (which takes it name from the number of the course), a dramatic...
Under the revised plans, two main parts of the general field are recognized. One deals with social structure and development, the other with social theory and standards. It is intended to require the student to study society both descriptively and critically and to distinguish clearly between the two modes of approach...
...change from straight musical comedy a piece of this sort is most refreshing. Particularly it is so, after the countless disappointments brought by "Student Prince" imitations and such. Colorful, gay, and above all tunefully refreshing. "The Silver Swan" takes its place well up in the ranks of worth-while musical entertainment...