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...traditional answer to this demand to accquire a reasonable comprehension of the arts has been the historical method, best exemplified by Fine Arts 13 and Music 1. Walter Gropius, famed professor emeritus, castigates this approach for an undue reliance upon "passive absorbtion" instead of upon active creation. As the 1956 Report of the Committee on the Visual Arts indicated, there is a valid and necessary place for such a verbal approach, but it should not be considered sufficient by itself to convey a deep understanding of the artistic processes--essentially non-verbal--which play such a widespread role in society...
President Pusey has selected seven Law School professors to conduct a study of legal education at the University. The committee will spend three years exploring the subject and formulating recommendations, A. James Casner, Weld Professor of Law and chairman of the group, said yesterday...
...Robinson Hall Professor N. T. Newton, Chairman of the Department of Architectural Sciences, repeated the same theme. "There may be relationships, such as proportion," he stated, "that we feel can be used today, but to copy the exact form does not follow. Our educational system has been built upon an over-regard for similarity, yet it is the differences after all that count.... What we need to do is to let the form of a design evolve out of the place and times and human need...
French 20 will in effect be divided into two courses when changes outlined yesterday by Wilbur M. Frohock, professor of Romance Languages, take place in the fall. Now given only in sections, the course will be offered simultaneously in either three all-French sections a week, or one English section and two French lectures a week...
...poetic interpretations of human destiny," Archibald MacLeish, Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory, yesterday received an honorary doctor of letters degree from the University of Pittsburgh...