OVERTURE

With the arrival of Professor Lovejoy from Seattle coupled with the appearance a few days ago of the pamphlet containing the lists of courses, rules and regulations and requirements for admission, the Cambridge School of the Drama is ready to function as an actual organization. The Board of Governors, all Harvard men, contains a brilliant roll of names well-known in the American Theatre. A considerable number of students have already enrolled, the money necessary to operate the project is assured and the other instructors have been chosen.

The departure of the Forty-Seven Workshop left behind a void which has been filled at last. The absence of a play-writing course was a serious deficiency considering the number of men who are interested in the Theatre as a permanent career; its return was a foregone conclusion.

While the School is not actually a part of the University it is closely identified in the promulgation of the idea by interested undergraduates, in the desire of the alumni to maintain the University's prestige on the New York stage, and in the fact that the majority of students enrolled in the course are Harvard undergraduates. Although there has been little mention of the student-group who brought the plan to the attention of the alumni prominent in the Drama, it was primarily an undergraduate movement. It is merely another instance pointing out the ability of the student to get what he wants if the need sufficiently interests him. The opening of the Cambridge School of Drama is another departure from Harvard's proverbial indifference.