Word: surveying
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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With the aid of 72 collaborators from 16 countries, at a cost of about $265,000 and twelve and a half years of work, Mr. Pope's Institute last year finished-and the Oxford University Press last week published-the first three volumes of a colossal, seven-volume Survey of Persian Art containing 200 color plates, 1,300 collotype pages, some 1,800 drawings. Thus made available to anyone with the price ($210) was the handsomest treatment in print of any art tradition...
Charlemagne was buried in a Persian shroud, and the late John Singer Sargent thought a certain Persian carpet "worth all the pictures ever painted." But, as connoisseurs know, weaving was not the only beautiful art of the Persians. Scholars may be engrossed by the Survey's detailed evidence that Persian art began even before Egypt's, that its course from 4000 B.C. to 1700 A.D. is the longest unbroken art tradition in human history, that it was the fountainhead of all Moslem art and the great synthesizer of the Orient, that such structural standbys as ribbed, transversal vaulting...
...regard to the editorial on tutoring schools which appeared in this morning's Crimson, it would be more accurate to say that when instructors realize that they must organize their lectures, the University will have done its part--to some extent. Such survey courses as History of Religions I, Philosophy B, and many others are taught by men who know their subject thoroughly, are often fine scholars, but whose personality renders them totally unfit to teach beginners. The lectures become so disorganized that many students find it almost imperative that they attend tutoring school to get an integrated knowledge...
...solution is that many of the men now lecturing to Freshmen should confine their activities to research and to giving advanced courses. The University should get lectures for the survey courses who know their subject and who have the knack of teaching beginners. Thus the existence of the tutoring schools would be almost unnecessary and, therefore, impossible...
...Boston authority on syphilis, who requested that his name be withheld since he is an employees of the U.S. Public Health Service which released the syphilis survey, stated that the average number of false reactions with the standard blood test, is 2 per 1000, a factor of error which would completely invalidate the American Social Hygiene Association's findings...