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 To allude very briefly to methods; the applicant for admission presents a drawing from the cast, either of a part or the whole figure, and if satisfactorily passed upon by the Committee on Instruction, the student is admitted to the night or day class for drawing from the antique. When the student has shown here sufficient understanding and ability a second drawing made from an entire figure is submitted to the Committee, and with their approval and the recommendation of the Instructors, admission is gained to the life class sought to be entered.

A distinct feature of the School is the desire and expectation that every student shall enter the class for modelling the human figure in clay, at the same time with the class in drawing or painting, being able in this way to gain a definite knowledge of anatomical structure, form and movement. In artistic anatomy a course of thirty-five lectures is given to the whole school; and the dissecting room, directed by the professor and under charge of a demonstrator, is open to more advanced students, who seem likely to be benefited by practical work in this department.

The sketch class, the portrait class and the class in composition are open to all students. Much interest has been shown in the composition class, and good results have followed, the stimulus here given being on the literary and poetic side of art. The subject for sketch is announced early in each month and drawings are submitted anonymously to the whole class, with a short criticism by the Instructor.

In conducting the schools the Direction aims that study shall be on the broadest, most liberal and highest plane, still believing, in the face of denial, that there is a 11