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...whole renaissance of amateur theatricals on a dignified, sane scale owes its origin to George Pierce Baker and to the universities throughout the country which have followed in Harvard's footsteps. Today state legislatures are in favor of the theatre movement in their universities and have even endowed creative dramatic schools where an M.A. in Drama is equal to an M.A. in any other field. This type of thing is vastly stimulating as well as hopeful and interesting...
...which ended in making Harvard a real university, in fact as well as in name. Those reforms proceeded by extending what Jared Sparks called "the university part of this seminary" at the expense of "the school-part". The news story also shows that the movement was of German origin...
...English Modernism--Its Origin, Aims, and Methods" will be the theme of the six lectures on Tuesday and Friday evenings during the first three weeks of December, which will be open to the public free of charge...
...origin of the name is unknown. Traditionally it dates from "a period of despair" whose very cause is forgotten, during which the inhabitants changed the name of their hamlet to a prayer for its deliverance...
...intact in a hidden cave, a group of skeletons in sitting postures, arms crossed over knees. Measured from crown to heel they sat five to six feet high; erect they would have stood ten to twelve feet. Anthropologists set off to examine these giants, hoping to clear the doubtful origin of the Chihuahua Indians, a rangy race...