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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...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...
...knowing, of intuition, of critical awareness, which becomes part of one's permanent equipment in dealing not only with aesthetic experience but with experience in general. Many teachers who have worked with young people during these later years will recognize that I am not describing a mythical individual. The student of today desires the rich personal satisfactions which works of art can give, but he desires something further. He feels, often unconsciously, the need for establishing, in Dewey's phrase, "the continuity of artistic experience with normal processes of living" in order that his experience of art may become...
...what extent are these functions of art instruction given place in our curricula and in our class-room methods? Only too frequently works of art are presented to students as aesthetic fragments torn from, their context in the lives, the ideas, the social habits, the cultural practices which produced them--very much as works of art are presented in a museum. This procedure, often necessary for the investigator-scholar, is a great disadvantage to the general student of art. His ignorance of the circumstances in which a great picture was painted, or a building constructed, not only limits the range...
Dean Hanford recommended student participation in the H-Y-P Conference on Public Affairs as "a unique opportunity," in a statement yesterday, and called his own part in the 1937 conference "one of the most valuable experiences in my work as a teacher of Government...
Directed by Professor Warren T. Powell, head of the university's student counselling department, the mechanism, all part of a college program evaluating psychological and other forms of standard tests, makes use of 750 "electric fingers" which detect the answers recorded on the answers sheet...