Word: among
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...rather with respect to those educational functions which, because most intimately linked with world change, stand most in need of continual revision, that I believe our colleges, Harvard among them, have been content with less than real accomplishment. For every potential specialist in art, undergraduate classes include many young men and women who are not there because they wish to lay the basis for a professional career in art, nor even purely for the sake of the intellectual discipline involved, but rather as persons whose taste in art, though they will never be artists themselves, will be of consequence...
Modern art has too long remained a "not un-feared, half-welcome guest" among art teachers, a testimony rather to our caution than to our sense of responsibility to the world in which we live. Contemporary art is likely, among teachers, to be regarded as a trouble some continuation of nineteenth century art, rather than a phenomenon which requires not only special knowledge but a rather unusual critical equipment for its comprehension or its appraisal. Few college graduates can say that they have given much time or much thought, in their fine arts courses, to Surrealism, the murals of Orozco...
...seems to be in sight to the kind of detachment which removed the artist from common experience, and which at its worst gave rise to an art merely for the museum, a rarified preciousness." If the layman is to meet the artist half way, we must include among the scholars, the research experts, the technicians on our faculties, men who can bring past and present into meaningful relationship, restore to past works of art their lost context and meaning, relate art to the common run of experience, override the compartments we have built for convenience, recognize the present...
...satire of Greek city life, the play tells how two Atheisns, dissatisfied with their city, set out to build a Utopia among the birds. Dreseed in fanciful headdresses and prancing about the stage, the chorus of birds will have an important part in the production...
Instead, therefore, of lagging behind in this noble procession, the Department of the Classics is among the leaders. Those who have discovered that the thought and the art of Greece and Rome are not antiquated but abiding, naturally are eager to explore its many relations to the history of mankind and to the world of today. There is no "querelle des anciens et des modernes" at Harvard. E. K. Rand...