Word: fine
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Physical Sciences increased from 272 to 283; the Arts (Architectural Science, Fine Arts, and Music), from 36 to 42. Losses can be seen in the Classics, Modern Languages, and the group of Philosophy, Psychology, and Sociology...
Five years ago, and with fine New England hauteur, Harvard refused to accept proffered aid from President Roosevelt's N. Y. A. Presumably taking the attitude that the college can care for her own, an offer of $135 for each of approximately 300 students was refused. Now that new sources of money must be found for the floundering Temporary Student Employment Plan--floundering because dining hall profits no longer exist--this bit of misdirected individualism appears all the more unfortunate...
...wrongs of the now painful Case, a reviewer may point out the unwisdom of painting the devil all black. Dryden praised Achitophe the judge and Pope allowed Atticus true genius. Mr. Loewi shows a want of imagination, or at least of strategy, in claiming that the Department of Fine Arts was moved solely by personal vindictiveness in failing to reappoint Professor Feild...
...suggest that Mr. Loewi is disingenuous; he is trying to be judicial, but he has not mentioned the inevitable frequency with which men are dismissed after nine years as faculty members, nor given the Fine Arts Department a bow for its solatium of a year's salary, nor allowed himself to contemplate the many other possible causes for dismissal. Such an approach suggests passion rather than reason...
...most striking thing in Mr, Rubenstein is the three-dimensional solidity of his bodies. It is evident in his muscular studies, as "Thor" and "Hand Grenade Throwers," and in the fine plastic anatomy of his faces, particularly "Negro's Head" where greatest strength is centered in the eyes. His sense of line is splendid. It is strong, almost fiercely so, in his pastels, but more subtle and still as effective in such drawings as "Gobs." The two sailors with hands in pocket at the lower left and the pugnacious face at top-center are marvels of characterization. In that native...