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Despite the passing of Professor Baker and the 47 Workshop, there has come about at Harvard something akin to a dramatic Renaissance. A Theatregoers' Club has been successfully organized, the Dramatic Club has decided to produce only undergraduate plays, and now a new movement is stirring in the minds of those who are deeply interested in the theatre. This is the desire for a new course, one in the history of stage design and theatrical production...
...Workshop plays have generally been indigenous to America. Their production, furthermore, has always been something in the nature of an experiment. Doubtless the same, only to a larger degree, would hold true of purely undergraduate efforts. The foreign plays which the Dramatic Club has hitherto produced have been well past the testing stage--have been the work of playwrights whose creative powers have reached a dramatic maturity. To abandon the latter seems regrettable. But disregarding the mooted wisdom of the decision, the Dramatic Club is to he commended for its honest effort to meet the needs of the present situation...
...shell has been returned to the workshop, where several alterations will be made. After its completion, it will be given tests with the old Pocock shell, in which the University crew rowed last spring, with the new Pocock shell which arrived from Seattle and was taken to the boathouse today, and with the new shell from Bowers and Phelps which is now on its way from England. A definite selection will probably be made before the Princeton trip during the Easter vacation...
...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...
...entirely representative of undergraduate feeling. He has worked well and constructively for the college since his appointment, and so far as I can determine, has been as good a man to succeed his wonderful predecessor as could have been found anywhere. Furthermore, his policy with regard to the 47 Workshop seems to me to have been the only logical one to follow, for anyone who had the best interest of the University at heart...