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Carpenter Center has certainly never claimed to be an art school that teaches technique to the bohemian artist. For Carpenter Center, as the exhibition makes so very clear, has succeeded in making art academic for the academic Harvard student. As an Economics professor might assign a paper topic, so the VES professor will give his students a particular, theoretical problem of design and ask them to solve it using very simple visual techniques. And as the courses are repeated year after year, the problems themselves become perennial...
Carpenter Center has certainly never claimed to be an art school that teaches technique to the bohemian artist. For Carpenter Center, as the exhibition makes so very clear, has succeeded in making art academic for the academic Harvard student. As an Economics professor might assign a paper topic, so the VES professor will give his students a particular, theoretical problem of design and ask them to solve it using very simple visual techniques. And as the courses are repeated year after year, the problems themselves become perennial...
...some head tutors’ objection to the advising center—that there is no evidence that students would use new resources—seems also to apply to proposals that would simply assign more faculty advisers to first-years...
Typically, most people try to assign such an inglorious distinction to autumn, a time which precedes the snowy festivities of winter and comes right after the good weather has just about run its course. And logic, at least on the surface, works...
...Dick Cheney by his side, Bush will be able to keep his story perfectly consistent with that of one of his closest advisers. One of the most important things the commission has to do in the coming months is compare testimony from top officials, look for discrepancies and finally assign some blame for the administrative missteps that preceded Sept. 11, 2001. That’s impossible when the two most important witnesses get to give tag-team testimony in secret...