Word: fines
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Fine Arts Department seems to have irrevocably decided that it does not want men with Professor Robin Feild's approach to the teaching of art. In spite of the impression which has been given that it would rather cut its own arm off than lose him if it were not for personal and administrative considerations, the issue clearly goes beyond these and raises the question of the department's general attitude toward the teaching of this subject. To this question no complete and dogmatic answer can be given which would invalidate its entire function. The department is highly esteemed...
Some excuse can be made for the Fine Arts Department action in dismissing Feild in that it must use the University's tenure system. But Feild was unique in his attitude toward the subject which he taught, which is shown by his great popularity, and the "progressive" courses he gave evidently filled a need in a moribund department, out of touch with present realities. It is doubtful if his shoes will be filled and his work continued since the sun withered him in this soil and showed it was barren. A good idea and a good man are lost...
Irving Dilliard, latest Nieman fellow to come to Harvard, considers his opportunity "a fine chance to come back to a grand place and learn more." Dilliard was a graduate student at Harvard in 1929 after being graduated from the University of Illinois...
Dilliard has settled down in Associate Justice Frankfurter's former home in Cambridge, which he hopes will add inspiration to his studies of law at Harvard. The present occupant of the famous jurist's home reports that, "Frankfurter's home is a fine place to live...
...general attitude to the same effect that teachers are born and not made, that teaching is an art which no amount of training in the science of education can impart. Dean Holmes of the Harvard School of Education has summed it up as the opinion that "any fine boy or girl will make a good teacher" whether or not he has any knowledge of the technical aspects of teaching itself...