Word: intros
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...supposed to teach approaches to different fields of knowledge. Instead, however, students say Core classes are basically intro-level department courses, and bad ones at that...
However, this book is more than just an intro to the coldwater SoHo loft that is Frank Stella's mind. Stella has assigned himself the second task of uncovering the origin of the "crisis of abstraction," the growing consensus even among practitioners that contemporary abstract art bores the hell out of people. Stella attributes this yawning chasm between potential and performance to the flat, two-dimensional quality of the abstraction of the 1970s and '80s, heir to the tradition of highly colored "decorative" paintings exemplified by Delacroix and Malevich...
AFTER HANDING BACK midterms, one Core section leader in a Core course commented that the exams were "pretty good for an intro course." All too often TFs like this one fail to realize that they are teaching almost exclusively non-concentrators who will never take another course in the field again...
...History are urged to take at least one of [the introductory] courses." That's funny--three of the five listed this year are bracketed. And the same thing happened two years ago. Should Fields of Concentration be changed to read that every other freshmen class should take an intro course...
Shalit added that the show will include segments of yesterday's Class Day ceremonies as well as an "amusing intro" look at Harvard's past, including material on the college days of past U.S. presidents Franklin '04 and Theodore Roosevelt (Class of 1880). The senior English Address, which Marius described as "very serious," will be given by Jon Kenton '83. The University will also award the following degrees...