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...speaker went on to discuss the conception of intellect which must function by suspending the act of becoming. It keeps a potentiality in its potential state until it wants it to become an actuality, he said. If intellect gave impetus to matter it would violate the principle of the conversation of energy...
...chief function in coming to America", he said, "is to forge one more link in the chain binding Harvard and Oxford together, but above all to convince the Harvard team of the error of its ways...
...book contains three addresses that President Eliot has delivered in recent years--"The Traditions of Harvard College" delivered at Philips Brooks House at a meeting of the foreign students in the University; "The Function of a University", given at a luncheon of the Liberal Club; and "The Harvard Yard and Buildings," given before the students in the Schools of Architecture and Landscape Architecture...
...painting at all. It is " the art of color " and has developed by a historical accident through the medium of oil, pigment and canvas, to which it bears no essential relation. The true, traditional painting is pictorial draughtsmanship. Its tools are line and mass, black, white and gray. Its function is decoration in public and private buildings. It reached its apex in Rubens (1577-1640), and since then no fundamental advances have been made - merely improvements in method, conquests of technical problems, emotionally impotent. To the great masters of the Renaissance, says Wright, color was incidental-laid on after...
Teaching the young journalism has for some years been part of college curricula. Practical education in the newspaper " game" has become the function of college daily newspapers. There are now 31 of these papers in existence scattered over the country from Los Angeles to Cambridge. They are probably more useful as educational institutions than as news -distributing agencies, for even the long established dailies of Yale, Harvard and Princeton are replete with errors and journalistic faux pas. Among the 31 is the Daily lowan of Iowa University, and that paper, it was announced, has become a member of the Associated...