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That such a quantity of plays results in a great waste of the best dramatic talent in the University is self-evident. Each of the six societies can produce but very few really capable actors. These men take the principal parts in their respective plays with the result that the remaining roles are but indifferently filled. Moreover, the number of patrons of the College drama is necessarily limited. The greater the number of productions to support, the smaller will be the portion to each. Adequate financial returns are essential if a high standard is to be maintained...
...history of dramatics at Yale is significant. Previous to 1901 the situation was very similar to the present one at Harvard: there being no restriction on the number of annual productions. Dissipation of talent and financial difficulties led to the establishment under faculty sanction of the Yale Dramatic Club which now virtually controls the situation in New Haven. The remarkable success of this society's productions in New York compared with the scattered mediocrity of the Harvard plays is proof of the relative value of the two systems...
...Hill's intellect was swift and subtle in its operation, frank and uncompromising in its expression. His critical powers were keen and accurate, and they had been trained to practical uses by his study of the law and his experience as a newspaper correspondent. His talent for detecting the besetting sin of a young writer and for characterizing it in a pungent phrase amounted to genius. His vivacity was amazing. He came to each day's tasks as fresh as if he had never been through them before. Often as he had to say the same things, he never said...
...long-successful club of actors exists in Cambridge outside the University; the Dramatic Club at Yale, and, in large measure, the Triangle Club at Princeton stand for acting. It seems at the present time as if we had an opportunity at Harvard to combine the best talent in one organization where other interests than acting should count for little. Debating and public speaking organization has changed its form almost every year; its movements have been tempered to the outside demand for debates, and the Faculty courses in expression; the Dramatic Club has been closely affiliated with the English Department...
...interest in public speaking in the College, and believes that all those who now engaged in it ought to be encouraged. Tonight eleven men chosen from 34 original contestants will compete for the five Boylston prizes. We can assure the members of the University that there is enough interested talent in Harvard to guarantee those who attend the contest a most pleasurable evening...