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Under the present system of tests, the report states, both Washington and Shakespere would fall in English because of the spelling requirement, and their ability to command the language as a medium of expression would count for nothing. To remedy this condition Dean Hawkes proposed to give the students entering the English department separate tests in spelling, vocabulary, construction, and composition to discover his fitness in each of these branches. Then, if no fails in one of these fields, instead of being excluded from college for the deficiency the student will be required to take without credit some college course...
...foretells. But then every scheme is idealistic until tested in practice. The French Academy was laughed at until its influence on the language and literature of France become unmistakably apparent. In fact it has made the language so clear and precise by its definitions that French has become the medium of diplomacy. Now that English is used by over 200 millions of people scattered over the globe, an institution to regulate and unify it, whether originating here or in its home, has become a necessity...
City planning has come greatly into the foreground during the last few years because several hundred cities have taken action to provide for future growth through the medium of a trained city planner. The demand for these men has been so large in recent years as to cause the School of Landscape Architecture to make this move in the direction of supplying that demand...
...thesis is that modernist painting, about which both laity and the profession rage, is not 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...
...descendants, they fathered the long line of impressionists, neo-impressionists, pointillists, postimpressionists, cubists, orphists, synchromists and what not, whom the 19th and 20th Centuries spawned. Modernist art is not yet aware of itself. The academic painters are in it only an insolent and half-baked challenge in their own medium. The modernists think they are destined to supplant the older school entirely. Neither is right, and when a true understanding of their respective purposes is spread abroad, the antagonism will vanish...