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This movement to give Harvard a practical school of the theatre was begun in order that the gap left by the departure of George Pierce Baker and his 47 Workshop might be filled. Tonight's meeting was the culmination of a long period of work by Harvard undergraduates who felt the need of such a school, and have been engaged for several months in sounding the student body of the University with regard to the possible, establishment of such a course of study. The plans which were completed tonight call for a course to be given during the second half...
There have been rumblings presaging serious dramatic activity at Harvard ever since the famous Forty Seven Workshop was discontinued. Within the last year these innuendos have gathered momentum and the chances for a revival of a former dramatic glory is looming up with a considerable show of realism. Although nothing definite has appeared, the general undergraduate feeling has certainly grown stronger, and it should be but a matter of time until something material is produced...
Once in a not too distant past Harvard did look favorably upon the theatrical arts. This is demonstrable by the fact that the present American stage is largely controlled by former members of the Forty Seven Workshop. The ante-dated conservative atmosphere which the teaching of the drama has now assumed at Harvard indicates that its present predominance in the theatre can not help but be short lived...
...medium-what to paint with, what on. He decided on canvas because he could then work anywhere and the murals, when finished, could be easily moved about. He then asked himself what paint had had the benefit of most research and chemical improvement. Obviously, automobile-paint. He hired a workshop, made sketches in pen, pencil, paint. Models of every race and color trooped in and out. The better to understand three-dimensional space he first modelled his groups so that he could look down upon their heads and look behind them to find what masses would organize best, what planes...
...work, upon which much Chicago money is lavished, was exhibited the archaeological reseasch of Professor James Henry Breasted, whose red-bound ancient history many a school must study. Through its local Community Research Committee, the University makes its closest contact with the city. In the research committee's workshop were shown compilations of information of education, commerce, government,? labor, vice and the gangsterism for which Chicago is ill-famed, to which the University is a standing, striving antidote...