Word: various
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...announcement that the Graduate School of Education is to cooperate with the University Film Foundation in distributing educational films throughout the world marks another step in bringing the motion picture into the field of intellectual endeavor. Since the organization of the Foundation two years ago various branches of the university as well as Harvard Clubs throughout the country have gained much both from the films taken of undergraduate life and the more specifically educational pictures that have been developed along different lines...
...premier showing of the second film of a series illustrating the various processes of the arts will be given at the Museum of Fine Arts Wednesday afternoon, November 20, at 3 o'clock. This movie is one of a group being made for the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, and will soon be followed by others...
Beginning with an exhibition of the various tools and the lines made by these instruments, the process is carried through to the final production of the rich, velvety print which is characteristic of drypoint. The picture is enhanced by the setting of Mr. Hall's studio along the North Shore. Close-up views of the artist at work and of details of the plate at various stages make clear the understanding of prints produced by this process...
While members of the country's moneyed classes ponder sadly over the safety of financial investments, there seems to be no fear as to the advisability of investment in academical institutions. Columbia University has just announced the receipt of over a million dollars from various gifts and bequests...
...with the advance of modern science, is fast breaking up what is left of the homogeneity of the university of today. Moreover, it does not seem as if the problem of modern research was being administered in as efficient way as possible. In the welter of new chairs of various sciences which are being founded in the universities of the country, there are bound to be many duplications. Among graduate schools specializing in certain fields there are many whose aims and methods of teaching are the same, yet they are scattered throughout the country. In many cases research...