Word: departmental
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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One can only hope that the Crimson's statements will not blind the Fine Arts Department to the value of the suggestions made in the report. John Keppel '40.
The quotation is from the Crimson's editorial dealing with the Fine Arts Department; the editorial leads one to suppose that these are opinions expressed in, or at least justified by, the Council's report on the department. Such is not the case.
The editorial is unfair to the Fine Arts Department for its makes statements such as:
"The recent establishment of a fellowship for the study of modern art is a hollow mockery, when the one man (Feild) that can save the department from its past must go." However stimulating a teacher he may be, Professor Feild is obviously not the only man that can improve the...
In recommending that assistant professor Feild be reappointed, the Council said that his loss was "depriving the students at Harvard of a more complete understanding of the Fine Arts," and that he filled a definite need for "excellent teaching in the theory of visual arts." Moreover, a petition signed by...