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...such creative outposts for very long. This matter is hardly ever one of impracticability, for time and money have been found in the past for many projects. It is, I feel, a problem of the distrust of anything new and unfamiliar to University life. Baker went to Yale: Richard Filipowski has been approached by another university which realizes the necessity for the course. If we deplore the lack of a theatre now, how long will it take us to realize that we need Design 1 back again...
...will naturally see how applicable this is to the new course in design. It has been conducted admirably by Mr. Filipowski, who is a very gifted and devoted teacher. It was a good course, but within the framework of a college education it was experimental. What has been learned from the experiment is not lost. Unquestionably the new dean, whoever he is, will take the results into consideration as he begins his task of creating the School of Design anew, to serve the future as he sees...
...results. The chaos and uncertainty of modern art and thinking finds its origin in a refusal, deliberate or not, to answer today's problems. Is it not Harvard's duty, as it has been the duty of universities throughout history, to protect the rights of men like Gropius and Filipowski who find at least one answer? The issue seems to me to be as deep as this, and not to stop on the level of practical difficulties with the curriculum. We must admit the existence of the problem; we must also preserve any solution we can find. John Benedict...
...Filipowski, who has already been approached by another University which wants the course, said that he hated to leave Harvard. He felt that his experiment has been successful in stimulating the student's own initiative and ideas, and it would be terrible to do away with the course...