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Advanced Standing students who are beginning their third year of residence found an unpleasant surprise buried in their reams of registration literature last week-a letter from David A. Harnett, director of Advanced Standing, stating an apparently new rule: "It is expected Advanced Standing students will ordinarily have completed all their A.B. degree requirements (concentration, General Education, etc.) by the end of their sixth term in residence." Attached to the letter was a questionnaire asking for detailed information on each student's progress in fulfilling Gen Ed and departmental requirements...
...Harnett himself is beginning his second year as director of the Advanced Standing office. Christopher Wadsworth, the former Director who has since left Harvard, had never mentioned any ruling to this effect. According to Wadsworth, any Advanced Standing student could have postponed until his fourth year as many degree requirements as he wished. When Harnett was questioned on this change in policy, he replied glibly, "It's not a new ruling. It's always been there. Wadsworth never paid any attention to it but we've [I've] fished it out and think it's important...
...reads closely the 1969-70 (pre-Harnett) edition of the Advanced Standing pamphlet, one might argue that the fish which Harnett caught does in fact exist. The important issue is that even if this fish was once alive, in practice it has long been dead. Wadsworth, as Harnett freely admitted, never took note of it. Instead, Wadsworth frequently encouraged Advanced Standing students to take two sophomore, two junior, or two senior years and thus remain at Harvard for a fourth year of academic flexibility. Harnett, on the other hand, seems bent on pushing students into graduate school work in their...
...perspective: the arc of a hill, an angled fence, the diminishing height of trees. The viewer feels that he has actually stepped into the landscape. Porter's murals customarily covered every square inch of the wall with a rustic version of trompe 1'oeil that prefigures William Harnett and John Peto. Doorways were incorporated into his overall composition by foliage or puffs of volcanic smoke painted around them. Wood graining and knots were repeated in the horizontals of tree limbs and clusters of figures...
Next he began picking up objects and juxtaposing them with the painted canvas. His use of the object can be seen as something of a contemporary parallel to the 19th century American still-life painters Peto and Harnett, who in their trompe-ľoeil arrangements of everydayobjects anticipated many of the same concerns that preoccupied the new realists of the 1960s. One Dine's most successful "combines" is a 1962 work in which an actual lawnmower is mounted in front of the canvas. Green paint clings to the blades like bits of fresh-cut grass, while the handle guides...