Word: things
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Miss Jane Cowl, I understand, has praised 'Desire Under the Elms.' She declares it to be a great play, and that it teaches a great moral lesson. You know the plot, I suppose. That plot is typical--all too typical of the sort of thing that is being exploited in New York. Producers insist on neurotic plays, plays that means something. The public or a very definite part of it, supports them...
...first place, was the 47 Workshop the most important thing in the college, after all? I do not here propose to criticise it, although I have read some of its productions and am talking not entirely in the dark. But I should like to ask whether the production of Slavically mournful, not quite "eqochmaking," plays is really of greater importance than, say, the foundation of a new scholarship or the sorely needed endowment of a laboratory or a professorship in one of the branches of the arts. Harvard is not an overwhelmingly rich college, over-endowed and able to spend...
...personnel of Eastern graduate schools must show that their students are drawn not from one state or one class of society, but from all over the world; and that this cosmopolitanism must reflect itself in the thought of any given institution. There can hardly be any such thing as a single type of mentality...
...been the part all America has played, which is the indestructible proof of the unity of our country. My duty as a citizen of this Nation, wholly apart from the creator of this work, makes it impossible for me even to consider the abandonment of so splendid a thing. Opposition means but one thing- I must continue and fight...
...probable that the Student Council keenly does realize that "the spirit of undergraduate Harvard is not exactly like that of other institutions". That is exactly what is the matter with it, and that is exactly what the Council aims to improve. The last thing on earth the Council wishes to stimulate is "artificial enthusiasm...