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...consideration of Fine Arts 1a it must be first thoroughly understood that the course demands a great deal of time and effort. In spite of this, or perhaps partly because of this, 1a is a splendid introduction to the field of Fine Arts. The lectures during the first half-year, given by Professor Pope assisted by Mr. Feild, outline the principles of drawing, painting, and design in a concrete and intelligent fashion, and they establish the vocabulary which is used in the later part of the course in analysis of the great masters of the historical schools of painting...
...body of the course is devoted to the Great Age of Greece; the student is given a detailed discussion of the buildings of the Athenian Acropolis and of the sculptural works of the six greatest Greek sculptors. Roman art is discussed cursorily just before the end of the half-year, and the course concludes with the monuments of the Age of Constantine. Because Professor Chase is primarily an archaeologist, the approach to the important monuments is archaelogical rather than aesthetic; the subject matter is seldom pedantic, and is continually enlivened with mythological and anecdotal detail...
...first half-year deals with American writers up through Poe and Cooper, the majority of whom fall into the Colonial period. While such men as Mather, Edwards, and Bradford are looked upon today as boring chroniclers of a forgotten age, the enthusiastic reader can readily find much of worth and even enjoyment in these old pages. True, in this early stage of American Literature there is more than enough of the much feared religious tract or dismal "ideas on the mind," but these may be reconciled by an hour with Franklin and the Gout or Trumbull and his "Tory Squire...
Volumetric analysis takes up the second half-year, involving the standardization of reagent solutions and titrating of unknowns. The average man will find that rarely will he require less than four afternoons a week, or about 15 hours a week, and this is a conservative estimate. The course is not hard, but requires rather close attention to details...
...year in Anthropology 1 is divided into several parts for convenience in covering the material. The first half-year concerns itself with Physical Anthropology, corresponding in some degree with a brief survey of human evolution, and in the latter part of the semester with pre-historic archaeology. For a short time after the mid-year period the course deals with racial distribution, and the rest of the year is spent with cultural anthropology, or Ethnology. The ethnology itself is divided into its departments of Religion, Sociology, Marriage and the Family...