The Academic Lives of Student Actors: Conservatoire Training as Degree-Level Study

A case could, it is believed, be easily made out for the direct establishment of an acting school under the exclusive aegis of the School of Humanities and Social Sciences. This is not recommended, out of deference to the view that the University should not be solely responsible for a course of training that includes some elements such as mime and dancing, or practical stage work that do not seem to be of academic character.
—Morven Brown
“Recommendations regarding suggested new courses in drama” (1958)