FINE ARTS DEPARTMENT ANNOUNCES NEW COURSES

A new course in the Fine Arts to be announced in the spring Bulletin is of special interest to advanced students planning to study architecture. It is called, Elements of Design in Architecture and Construction, and will be conducted by . Professor George D. Lord and J. Fredrick Larson, the college architect. Two hours a week will be given to books and plans, including the reading of blue-prints, and the equivalent of a third hour to practice under Mr. Larson's supervision in his office or to observation in buildings under construction. For juniors a new second semester course, Mediaeval and Renaissance Architecture, to be offered by Professor Zug or by Professor Rusk, will correlate with the course in Greek and Roman Architecture already offered, and provide an historical background for the future architect.

For the student with more general interests, the increase in the personnel of the Fine Arts department permits the offering for the first time of three additional courses. Artemas Packard will inaugurate an elementary course next fall, Introduction to the Appreciation of Art, for those who wish to gain a general understanding of art and its relation to life, involving a consideration not only of the fine arts socalled, but also of other significant forms of human expression. Professor Arthur Fairbanks, in addition to the course he gave the first semester this year and which he is renaming, Art and Life, and moving to the second semester, will give a first semester course, the

Greek Spirit in Art. In this he will study the history of the Greek people as culminating in the Periclean age at Athens; the development of political, religious, and intellectual life as determining the art of Greece and as expressed in it. For the second semester he will conduct an advanced course, The Philosophy of Art: The Sense for Beauty. He writes of this course, that after a brief survey of the history of aesthetics, the apprehension of beauty in nature and in art will be studied from the point of view of psychology and of philosophy.