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...different atmosphere and a new approach. The schools, on their part, by placing the seniors more on their own responsibility for the time and place of study and by apportioning assignments in larger units are coreshadowing some of the conditions of college work. It is not improper oramming nor slavish imitation of college methods to give the students during their last year an opportunity to realize what a lecture is as a teaching device, to appreciate some of the possibilities of a "reading period", and to gain some conception of the independent use of a libary and of material...
Last week Baron Ebbisham. who as Sir George Rowland Blades was two years ago Lord Mayor of London, returned to London from a business trip to the U. S. and imparted to his countrymen some shrewd advice. "I want to say a word." he began, "against slavish copying of methods which may have produced prosperity in other lands. Take such experiments as American mass production methods or German cartelized [trust] control of entire industries. These may be only passing phases. At any rate remember that our traditional lines of development have little in common with those countries...
...individual artist, accompanied by zeal for personal inspection of realities as they appeared to him. The result was a beginning of three dimensional representation on two dimensional canvas; depiction of sky, land, water; desire for self-immortalization in portraiture and self-propulsion in art, as opposed to slavish dogmatism in conception and execution. For such reasons, then, art lovers regard the quartocento and quintocento painters with the same veneration that philosophers accord Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, and poets, Homer, Sophocles, Virgil. It was of great moment to them, therefore, when Sir Joseph Duveen, art dealer of England, announced purchase...
...about better class people they would be better stories." As to these "best" Negroes' complaint that their lives are not made the subject of Negro literature, Mr. Hughes thought that they were fortunate in being neglected. For, said he, a "really powerful" story would expose "their pseudo culture, their slavish devotion to Nordic standards, their snobbishness, their detachment from the Negro masses and their vast sense of importance to themselves. . . . [Such a book] would be more wrathfully damned than Nigger Heaven? at present vibrating throughout the land in its eleventh edition...
...result of this principle of fine arts is that the extraordinary truth of representation which is to be seen in the work of such an artist as Howard Giles is not the slavish result of realistic limitation, but rather the truth of the imagination. The scope of the work is indeed limited to the directions and angles of a single right triangle, since the reciprocals to the diagonals are at right angles to them. Far from limiting the possibilities of the work, this method adds immeasurably to the possibilities of design. A strict symmetry in space relations...