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...long remained a "not un-feared, half-welcome guest" among art teachers, a testimony rather to our caution than to our sense of responsibility to the world in which we live. Contemporary art is likely, among teachers, to be regarded as a trouble some continuation of nineteenth century art, rather than a phenomenon which requires not only special knowledge but a rather unusual critical equipment for its comprehension or its appraisal. Few college graduates can say that they have given much time or much thought, in their fine arts courses, to Surrealism, the murals of Orozco, or the Federal...
Professor Allard is generally regarded as one of the leading authorities on French literature of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. A Faculty member here since 1906, he is perhaps best known outside the University for his work on "La Comedie de Moeurs on France an 19eme Siecle...
...fields. Then, a group of original men in Lowell House conceived the idea of a "symposium," consisting of student impersonations of great men of the past. In this way it was possible, for example, to portray the repercussions of Darwinian thought on economics, philosophy, literature, and religion of the nineteenth century. Last week a similar project, built around Marxist theory, was so successful that it stimulated a heated audience discussion of Stalin and Trotsky, and recreated the exciting days of the 20's when control of the Party in Russia was still in doubt. If proof were needed, that debate...
...extreme desirability of correlation in Freshman elementary courses was evidenced yesterday when Dr. Karpovich, History professor, lectured on the music and thought of the nineteenth century and brought something new into the thought processes of the students. For them it is now possible to study the music of the last century not as a constantly narrowing and more specialized field, but one in which each new detail broadens the significance of music in relation to the rest of contemporary human activity...
Come what may, the various departments would do well to emulate the comparatively new and active Music division. It has at least attempted to correlate history with its elementary course by introducing men from the History Department to give historical background-lectures. Yesterday Professor Karpovich, correlating nineteenth century thought with nineteenth century music, did a magnificent job of a type almost unknown to Harvard...