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...aroused considerable interest, and has inspired a group of men to do their own work. This is the sort of plan that Harvard could and should adopt for the undergraduate who is interested in creative art, for at present the Fine Arts department offers only one course, Fine arts 1a, which is of any practical value to the artist...
Even if Harvard cannot follow Cranbrook's experiment, it should at least set up a studio for painters and sculptors; the interest that has been shown in the "laboratory' work in Fine Arts 1a should convince the department that the studio will be used. To adopt this plan and the others recommended in the preceding editorials would mean that Harvard could take care not only of the scholar, but of the collector and the creative artist as well...
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...even this course is not enough for the general course in Art. The History and Philosophy of Art, given also excellently in themselves, fail to appeal because they need some of the concretizing of 1a, and yet 1a in itself needs some of the vaporizing of 1c and 1d and 1c. The course which combines all of these three would have to narrow its scope somewhat, but it would teach the method and general principles better to the amateur...
...wider scope but which would be narrowed down by a theses. In other words, the idea would be to narrow down the philosophical and historical scope of the present courses in the fields of History and Philosophy of Art, and to include in the new combination as much of 1a concretizing advantages as possible...