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...brought about a severe case of shudders in any number of Faculty members. Its primary administrative recommendation was that the Fine Arts Department (to be called History of Art), the Department of Design, and the Harvard theatre, should be subordinated to a Division of the Visual Arts. As Sidney Freedberg, current chairman of the Fine Arts Department, has expressed it, the Faculty "brayed this suggestion." The committee also recommended that students in the History of Art be required to take at least one course in the history of design and participate in "labs" appended to History of Art courses...
Perry French, Yann Weymouth, and John P. Russo won first, second, and third places respectively at the second annual Eliot House art show. Judged by Professors Freedberg and Ackerman of the Fine Arts Department, the show, which can be seen until Friday in the Eliot House Junior Common room, attracted 15 exhibitors...
...MICHAEL FREEDBERG...
...Fine Arts department, then, the academic value of F.A. 16 and 18, is not to put too fine a point on it, almost negligible. Sydney Freedberg, the chairman of the department, goes so far as to say that the studio courses give a Fine Arts concentrator "no aesthetic, technical, historical or creative advantages" unobtainable in the regular lecture courses. The department, Mr. Freedberg explains, originally assumed the function of presenting studio courses only because there was no other unit in the University able to offer such courses. (Why the department bothered to take on this task is a question which...
...more money were available, more scholars might be able to study art independently at I Tatti, according to Sydney J. Freedberg, Chairmen of the Fine Arts Department. Myron P. Gilmore, professor of History and chairman of the advisory committee for I Tatti, said that since the official drive had just begun it would be difficult to appraise it. No indications were given of planned changes in the fund drive...