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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...year after a personnel shake-up in the department of Visual and Environmental Studies, Robert G. Gardner, chairman of the department, said yesterday he feels, his department is "coming along...

Author: By James Gleick, | Title: Vis Stud Chairman Sees Gains Despite Shake-Up and Criticism | 6/11/1975 | See Source »

...seven-year-old department is the only one at Harvard that grants degrees solely for work in the creative arts, and Gardner said he expects Vis Stud to "stand on an equal footing with other departments before long...

Author: By James Gleick, | Title: Vis Stud Chairman Sees Gains Despite Shake-Up and Criticism | 6/11/1975 | See Source »

Dean Rosovsky has authorized three tenured positions in the department, which now has no permanent faculty, and three other members of the Vis Stud faculty will be promoted to the position of "senior lecturer." Gardner says the hirings will give the department "a sort of cadre" of instructors that it has long needed...

Author: By James Gleick, | Title: Vis Stud Chairman Sees Gains Despite Shake-Up and Criticism | 6/11/1975 | See Source »

...Gardner said that grading is "probably" lax in studio courses because "there is little objective means for measurement of somebody's ability...

Author: By James Gleick, | Title: Vis Stud Chairman Sees Gains Despite Shake-Up and Criticism | 6/11/1975 | See Source »

...Oklahoma wildcat oil prospector, Gardner learned early to separate wild claims from bedrock actualities. At the University of Chicago, he was known as a demon chess player who quit the game for a greater love: philosophy. "But somewhere, no matter how serious I was," he recalls, "there was always a little boy kicking around inside. Then I sold my first story to Esquire. It wrapped a plot around some shaggy dog stories. Red Skelton mentioned the piece on the air, and the boy and philosopher were off and running...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: The Mathemagician | 4/21/1975 | See Source »

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