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Fine Arts 1d...
Fine Arts 1d is one of those large, popular courses, which combines at once most excellent qualities with large disadvantages. Perhaps the most excellent thing about Fine Arts 1d, at least for the ordinary undergraduate, is Professor Edgell; even at Harvard it is all too rare to have the opportunity of hearing a lecturer to whom it is a pleasure to listen. The vast majority of those who come to marvel that merely human flesh and blood can speak so rapidly, smoothly, and interestingly, remain for an hour under a species of trance in which scenes from the Mediaeval Renaissance...
...other hand, the greatest disadvantage of Fine Arts 1d is that it seeks to cover, in the space of half a year, all of art from 300 A. D. to the present. Why this course is not expanded to occupy a full year is just one of those inexplicable mysteries. As a result, however, of its present conduct, the student is forced to learn a very large number of slides in a comparatively short time--and hence gets merely a bird's eye view...
...short, Fine Arts 1d does what History 1 does, but in an even more rapid and cursory way--and it does it excellently well...
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