Word: teacher
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Regrettable, I think, is the assurance with which the Crimson has decided that Professor Feild is Fine Arts' most popular teacher. Have you had a contest, or do you just know that among the "Fine Arts Six" none stands a chance...
Finally, I should like to protest the relentless definition of Professor Feild as the most successful teacher of fine arts. Anyone familiar with the record of Harvard's department in producing capable graduates would stop to consider. This becomes difficult when people are impatient to "undertake an investigation of the complete fine arts setup...
...introduction of such ideas would involve revolution in the Fine Arts department. It is this revolution of which Professor Feild is the tribune. But the revolution cannot come, and Feild must go because of Harvard's teacher-tenure and departmental-autonomy systems. By these, the committee of six permanent fine arts professors are entrusted with the final decision as to who shall teach under them. Thus they are able to choose their own successors, perpetuate their own ideas, prevent any change, and eliminate unwanted personalities. So long as they remain in control, the department will be static...
These steps: would prevent the commission of a grave injustice. They would forestall the loss of the most popular and successful teacher in Fine Arts. But beyond this, they would possibly lead to fundamental changes in the department which, in view of its unparalleled resources, would make Harvard one of the world's leading centers of art culture...
Such a man intrigues Vag. Everyone knows that he went deaf before he was thirty and still composed some of the most superlative music of all time. But few know that, in his early life, he was superbly egotistic. From his great teacher, Haydn, he insisted that he learned nothing. He made enemies because of his overbearing manner as fast as he made friends with his music; he disdained to hear Mozart's operas "lest I forfeit some of my originality." "I want none of your moral (precepts)," he once wrote, "for Power is the morality of men who loom...