Word: periodicities
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last man to hold and deserve this emeritus distinction was Elihu Root, who was Secretary of War under McKinley and Roosevelt I, then the latter's Secretary of State and died (aged 91) in 1937. Now, as in no other period of U. S. history, there is a dearth of Elders. Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes's job disqualifies him. Ex-President Herbert Hoover remains too closely identified with his wing of the Republican Party to seem Olympian when he sounds off. His Cabinet as a whole are out of public sight and mind...
...gloomy picture of the future of democracy is painted by his sturdy, scientific facing of the facts. His realism frankly admits that the mass of humanity cannot be decorated much, and in meeting the problem of unemployable youth he would at least make them skillful drones during the incubation period. "Now, and not at some indefinite time to come, education should be integrated with life and kept integrated for all time to come," Dr. Prosser stated. But it is a matter of taste and not of logic whether or not one accepts his leveling integration and decides that vocational training...
...Robin Feild. What I have to say is, of course, the personal opinion which I hold as an individual. The whole foundation of my own fifteen years of teaching in art was acquired at Harvard; much that was taught me there I have taught to others during this period. Experience, however, tests theories and modifies the practice based on theories; and my present conception of what a college or university art faculty owes to the student varies in important respects from that which prevailed at Harvard during my years of study there...
...sure, which is relatively independent of these world changes, because they have a value which remains relatively constant. I refer to the preparation of the scholar-specialist whose activity will add to the sum total of what is known about a man, a work of art, a period, a school. The future scholar learns the methodology of research; he acquires precision and a scrupulous honesty in using his materials. To delicately sharpened powers of analysis and appraisal he adds ability to perceive qualities in works of art. So far as concerns Harvard, the distinguished careers of hundreds of scholars, museum...
...have given much time or much thought, in their fine arts courses, to Surrealism, the murals of Orozco, or the Federal Art Projects. Few scholars feel that these are fruitful subjects for scholarly investigation. In a publication which contains the results of scholarly research, I recently found, for the period between 1925 and 1930, forty-eight articles on mediaeval art, twenty-two on Renaissance and Baroque Art, and one on Modern Art. Perhaps it is because the critical apparatus of most scholars is so beautifully equipped to deal with Masaccio and Piero della Francesca that it finds itself...