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...called attention to a number of changes to be made in the School. Earlier in the year the appointment of Professor Jean Jacques Haffner as Professor of Architectural Design had been announced. Professor Haffner, a graduate of the Ecole des Beaux-Arts and holder of the much coveted Prix de Rome, commenced to teach here last January. He will take charge of the courses in design and will bring to Harvard the instruction, criticism, and inspiration that our students in the past have so often had to seek abroad. Professor Humphreys; himself a fellow student with Professor Haffner in Paris...
...profession, judges the drawings and determines the grades. The evening class for draughtsmen in the Boston Architectural Club also joins in these combined problems. Professor Ferran, recently appointed to the Institute staff, is also a graduate of the Ecole des Beaux-Arts and a winner of the Prix de Rome. He is also a close personal friend of Professor Haffner. The arrangement of joint problems will give Boston something of the advantage which the Ecole des Beaux-Arts has so long enjoyed, that of rival ateliers in the same locality, working on the same problems, and with the great advantage...
...being awarded annually for the "book of the year", as there are books published. Bookstains in Montmartre are lost in a maze or color,--red, green, and gold banded book-covers, shutting out the name of the author eagerly displaying the fact that the sevel almost won the "Prix do Goncourt", or that voters in some weekly's popularity contest put only two other books ahead...
Just as competing for the Prix de Rome revealed the extraordinary ability of Berlioz and Debussy, so the awarding of an American Fellowship may bring out another MacDowell. Those who complain of the misdirected energies of the "materialistic" American people will be pleased to note the increasing tendency toward aesthetic appreciation, for, while not directly subsidized by the American government, the Academy functions under a charter from Congress. And who knows but that the flavor of foreign recognition is just the straw of confidence Americans want and need? After all, ours is an embryo development, sans tradition, sans reputation...
...Haffner ranks as a winner of the Grand Prix de Rome, one of the highest of architectural honors and was one of the foremost students at the Ecole des Beaux Arts, where he won numerous honors. Mr. Albert Ferran, also a Grand Prix winner, came from France with Mr. Haffner and will have charge of design at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. They have worked together before, and as the two schools are often engaged in "conjunctive problems" they will have an opportunity to continue their joint studies...