Word: artfulness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...world through productive scholarship and intelligent research on the part of its faculty and graduate students. For this reason a balance between these two goals must be achieved, so that one aim does not obscure or act to the detriment of the other. Today at Harvard the art of teaching has been subordinated to the function of research, and the balance between the two should be restored...
...ability to arouse intellectual interest in college undergraduates, to inspire them through good teaching, is an art in itself. The attainment of perfection in this field of activity requires assiduous and constant practice. The instructor must prepare his lectures well, he must put everything that be can into his tutorial sessions, and he should enter into as close contact with his students as possible...
...with Government bigwigs, including Secretaries Wallace and Morgenthau. These and similar "exploratory sessions" will be all the gradually assembling faculty of the Littauer School will conduct until it is opened to students in the fall of 1938. By that time it will have moved its headquarters from old Hunt art museum to a new building, for which Founder Littauer earmarked $500,000 of his gift...
...Nicholas Frederic Brady announced her engagement last February to William J. Babington Macaulay, Irish Free State envoy to the Vatican, it also became known that she was planning to turn over her huge Manhasset estate, "Inisfada." to the Society of Jesus, sell off its reputedly brilliant collection of art. Fortnight ago a posse of New York dealers and collectors' agents trekked through the fragrance of a Long Island spring to "Inisfada," paid 50? a head (for charity) to enter the rambling, 87-room Tudoresque structure, took long, thoughtful looks at its contents before the sale was opened...
...figurines, old Crown Derby dinner services, Georgian silver, Oriental table screens, crystal candelabra, needlepoint armchairs, Elizabethan joint-stools, satinwood bedsteads, Jacobean armchairs, cut-glass fingerbowls, Flemish oak chests, potted palms, tooled leather wastebaskets and bronze andirons, they saw enough to stock all the dealers in Manhattan. Of the great art which legend maintained was "Inisfada's" glory, they saw little. Artistically respectable by most current standards was the garden-sculpture of Malvina Hoffman, auctioned off in situ among the rose bushes. For the rest, it appeared that the Bradys, in their assiduous years of collecting, had amassed a store...