DRAMATIC CLUB HITS STIFLING OF DRAMA

"There has been a cry for the drama at Harvard and a protest against the departure of Professor Baker", declared Eduardo Sanchez '26, President of the Dramatic Club, in an open meeting of the club last night. "But it seems to me best to protest constructively. The Dramatic Club offers the sole opportunity for serious work in the drama."

Sanchez went on to announce that the spring production of the club will be, "The Moon Is a Gong" by John Dos Passos '16. He explained that competitions are starting in the several departments and urged his hearers to register their disapproval of the action of the University authorities in discouraging dramatic work.

Mr. E. E. Clive, of the Copley Theatre, spoke in the same vein.

"I am not here," said Mr. Clive, "to criticize your President or your Board of Control, but I think it is a damnable thing that they should try to throttle or stifle the drama. In getting rid of Professor Baker, Harvard has lost; Boston has lost; and Yale has been the gainer.

"Your President is quoted as saying that you have the greatest law school in the world. Perhaps you have, but how much better it would be to turn out a thousand Galsworthys, Shaws and Barrys than 50,000 lawyers."

Praises Eddinger and Crimson

Discussing Wallace Eddinger's offer of a dramatic scholarship for the most promising actor in the University, Mr. Clive termed it one of the greatest things that had happened to the drama.

He praised the CRIMSON'S offer of a weekly prize for the best criticism of the current play at the Copley Theatre and urged that an interest be taken in competing for this prize.

"If ever a profession needed recruits," said Mr. Clive, "it is that of the dramatic critic."