Word: succession
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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This will mark the beginning of Harvard's campaign to move up from last year's lowly seventh position in the Ivy League, and if it is to enjoy any success in this endeavor a victory today must be considered mandatory. If the varsity loses to Cornell, the psychological disadvantage, especially if it bows to a very strong Leheigh eleven next week, will be tremendous as it faces the heart of the 1958 schedule...
...success of a Student Council proposal for a subsidy from the Dean's Office may depend largely on the results of the forthcoming Council referendum, Dean Watson stated yesterday. Besides the student body's decision on the referendum, the Dean's Office would want to have an indication of "student interest" in the Council before taking action on the proposal...
...gamble, the HDC undertook an ambitious $9,000 mounting of Kaufman and Hart's The Man Who Came to Dinner, with Monty Woolley as imported guest star. Thanks largely to Woolley, this was the best show the HDC staged during this period, and it drew huge crowds. The artistic success was forgotten. however, as soon as it was discovered that $4,000 had been embezzled from the receipts...
...spring term ended with the HDC's production in Sanders of O'Neill's Marco Millions. This was the largest show ever undertaken at Harvard. It was beautifully acted by a huge cast of 75, and had stunning sets and costumes; but it was not a big popular success--the public was not yet ready for this play, which, although highly unorthodox and exotic, is a masterful work...
Even more startling is the success of Chaplin's The Great Dictator, which is currently being re-released to convulsed audiences in Europe. Interspersed scenes such as Hitler doing a balloon dance with a globe are obvious ridicule, with very doubtful historic basis. But the story focuses on a sort of polar struggle between the gestapo and "the ghetto," which seems incredibly funny even to Europeans...