Credit Where Due

When poet Archibald MacLeish founded the Harvard Radio Workshop, he expected undergraduates to get from this experimental group the experience which, as much as talent, is needed to break into network scripting. But FDR called Archy to Washington, and the Radio Workshop like other creative groups in the College was left with little Faculty contact or support. True to its traditions, it seemed that the English Department was about to tell radio drama (as it once told Professor Baker's stage drama) to go to Yale.

Professor Morison's recent decision to permit course credit to be given in English A and A-1 for plays written in the Workshop competition which starts tonight, however, is a long step away from the traditional mustiness. Without becoming an intellectual service station at which activities are more important than curriculum, Harvard's English Department can well put less emphasis on someone's footnotes to someone's footnotes and more emphasis on preparing and encouraging Harvard men to do creative writing of their own.