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The scientific schools, long a fortress of reasoning
and practicality, have lately been encouraging in their students a curiosity
about the arts. The Massachusetts Institute of Technology and other technical
training centers have introduced music to the elective parts of their curricula
with notable success. Even on the philosophic plane the scientific world,
classically disciplined to a positivistic attitude, has begun to wonder
if perhaps there is not something to be learned from the more spontaneous
working methods of the musician, the painter, the poet.
Virgil Thomson
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