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With the report of Mr. Owen Wister comes the certainty that instructions in dramatic writing will not be abandoned. It would, indeed, be a misfortune if the departure of the Workshop's founder should cause an annihilation of courses and active interest in applied dramatics. Mr. Wister's report but emphasizes the university's commendable determination to repair what damage it can and to carry on its traditions of dramatic teaching...
That the work in dramatic instruction at Harvard, inaugurated 30 years ago by Professor George P. Baker, who has recently accepted a professorship at Yale, should be continued, was the opinion expressed by Owen Wister '80, well-known playwright and novelist, in a written report of the Committee on English, which was submitted to the Board of Overseers at their January meeting, the reports of which have just been published...
Following Mr. Wister's recommendation, the Board of Overseers voted that the President of the Board appoint at his convenience a committee to consider if and in what manner the foregoing recommendation of the Committee on English can be carried...
...Owen Wister's Report...
With one exception (Owen Wister, of Philadelphia), the Harvard Fellows demurred at Mr. Chapman's identification of their colleague with "the out spoken purpose of the Roman Church." Ralph Adams Cram, Boston architect, Protestant, wrote to Mr. Chapman: "Will you . . . state explicitly where and when the Roman curia, or any other official body of the Roman Catholic Church, has declared it to be its 'outspoken purpose' to control American education? . . . I do formally challenge you to show cause for making your amazing statement. For my own part, I deny it explicitly...