The Stadium is too often thought of simply as an athletic arena, as a scene of physical conflict. Yet by its use as a theatre for the production of Greek plays, it fulfills a function no less important, though less often exercised, than the gladitorial one.

Though the Stadium has previously been used for large-scale dramatic and operatic projects, the plays this spring, under the direction of Mr. Granville Barker, should be especially notable. Mr. Barker is a producer of international reputation, whose genius alone is sufficient to distinguish his efforts from former ones. Moreover, though Mr. Barker has "Put on" Greek plays in England, frequently out of doors, he has never been completely satisfied with the results. In the Stadium, he hopes to find conditions entirely suitable. In making the University the centre of so important an experiment, the Stadium is performing a big service.