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 bringing-up of children, beginning with the first hours of their school attendance. Instruction in hygiene received in primary schools is completed in the higher grades through a course of lectures delivered by the school physician. Hygiene, as a bio-social science, should be taught in the last year of secondary schooling. Here hygiene should be superseded by instructions in the physiology and anatomy of man.

Hygiene should be taught by a physician.

Commissary of School-Sanitary Department.

In each of the capitals there is an Art Collegium to look after the art interests of the population. Document No. 16 gives the names of the members of the Moscow Art Collegium, also the various functions of that body, which show that the Soviets are much concerned with the teaching of art and the preservation of art objects. Documents Nos. 17 and 18, in accordance with the Strindbergian doctrine that "there is so much that only needs to be destroyed," deals with two necessary abolitions of former institutions, before their functions could be handed over to the representatives of the proletariat.

The Art Collegium of the city of Moscow has the following membership list of painters, sculptors and architects: Konchalovsky, Konenkov, Mashkov, Tatlin, Ivanov, Morgunov, Mrs. Tolstoi, Udaltzeva, Schusev, Noakovsky, Theltovsky, Vesnin and the Commissary of Art—.

All of them had joined the Collegium's body as representatives of the unions and organizations to which they belong.

The Collegium's objects are:

1. Organization of State art education:

(a) establishment of art studios meeting the requirements of the new Russia;

(b) propaganda of art among large democratic masses.