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The Pamphlet Collection of Sir Robert Stout: Volume 50

Report

Report.

It may be well to repeat a few statements made in the last Report, for general information:

"Every student that is qualified to enter upon the University course—whether he bring to the work of the Art Department a conscious predilection (natural talent) or not—will make a progress in the study of Form and Art, that is fully commensurate with his efforts." The most faithful student in this as in any branch of study, will ever achieve the best results.

By the supply of moveable blackboards, blackboard compasses and straightedges, this Department has been enabled to give the students of the Normal Department special training in blackboard work.

The Engineering students received a course of instruction in Lettering, by which they have become competent critics in that subject. They have also been given practice in the use of instruments and the drawing of curves (free-hand) through fixed points, and general instructions in the use of pigments, of all of which they are now prepared to make intelligent application.

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The assistance which this Department is now giving the classes in Botany in verifying their weekly lessons, every Saturday in the Green-house is highly appreciated by the students and their Professor. Drawing, in connection with this, as with other scientific pursuits, cannot be over-estimated, as nowhere does the utterance of Peter Paul Rubens: "To see, to understand, to remember—is to know," more pertinently apply.

The number of students in attendance in the Art Department during the present year was 179, exclusive of the classes in Botany.

Respectfully submitted,

Conrad Diehl

, Professor of Art.