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...upon French 2, and to a lesser degree French 1, as a valid and easy means of satisfying these. The result is an overcrowded course, presenting poorly organized and uninteresting material to a group of students whose only purpose in the course is meeting the language requirements in the simplest possible manner. Such a course does not belong in the Harvard curriculum...
Unfortunately, the sort of legacy which demands such special application is not limited to the library. There are numerous examples in other departments of the University. The Anthropology department is forced to do without even the simplest supplies for its students, while the Physics department can furnish each of twenty Freshman with an instrument valued at eighty dollars. Besides such minor cases, there are classic monstrosities like the Engineering School, which has been laboring for years in a morass of difficulties originating in the will which endowed...
Fingerpainting, the process's official name, was evolved by capable, burly Ruth Faison Shaw at her experimental school for British & U. S. children in Rome. Her primary interest was more therapeutic than artistic. She wanted to give her pupils the simplest and most direct method of self-expression to avoid the element of fear induced by tools that the child feels incapable of mastering. Spreading paint with the bare hands was an obvious idea but ordinary paints have obvious disadvantages. Fingerpaints, Miss Shaw's own invention, are made with harmless earth, pigments and a cold-creamy substance...
Bennett's clients are aware that his smart variations, his rich counterpoint, will do wonders for the simplest song, but until lately none of them bothered to put his name on the program. They changed their ways when serious musicians started praising his talent. The fact that Bennett can sit down at a drawing board, turn out 80 pages of orchestration a day while his wife reads to him or plays the radio, will seem less significant to laymen than a list of the current shows he has had a hand in. He prepared most of the scores...
...Teaching, to be sure, deserves the importance accorded it by the report, but the elevation of teaching standards is not to be accomplished by the method suggested. The standards of education cannot be raised by jerking the structure of research out by the roots, though this might seem the simplest and surest method. Research, though it may have been discredited by some uses made of it, forms the actual foundation of any higher educational institution other than a tutoring school...