Word: pupils
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...picture, painted by Sarah Putnam, a pupil of Sargent's, was placed in the Dining Hall without ceremony Wednesday afternoon...
Miss Verande's desire to keep up her art studies and her dancing at the same time was the basis for the Academy of Arts. One Sunday morning she telephoned two of her friends; Sculptor William Sewell, pupil of Thomas Benton and the late great Antoine Bourdelle, and Composer Hugo Frey, well-known song writer and musical comedy arranger. They rented a floor in a 39th Street building, moved in a piano, two large mirrors, a model stand and some easels, and opened their university...
...Dannemora art school, no one paints his environment. All go as far away as possible from Dannemora's stone walls. Teacher Curtis paints pictures that look like calendars in village postoffices: an Indian, a landscape, a glossily highlighted Flemish Fisher. His star pupil, Convict R. Rehm, has faithfully copied Gainsborough's Blue Boy and painted an original picture of rearing, free Wild Horses from his own dreams. Even the wild horses shine with idealism. Another pupil, Convict H. Nelson, produces pictures like railroad travel posters advertising any place but Dannemora...
...Koehler, administrative go-getter, was the Lyceum's real head, lost no opportunities to show Munck his place. Munck swallowed his pride, went on teaching piano and trying unsuccessfully to get on with his composition. In one pupil, tall, gawky Jeanette. he became really interested; soon he was in love with her. When she went away with a younger man Munck hardly cared what happened next. After a while he pulled himself together, resigned from the Lyceum, got a job kettledrumming in an orchestra. He commuted to his work from a shabby town in New Jersey. There till late...
...What do we get for all that money? We get a huge array of expensive buildings, a huge horde of expensive quacks, an immeasurable ocean of buncombe . . . high-salaried experts in solving the insoluble and achieving the impossible ... a truant officer to fetch [the pupil] and police him, a dietitian to save him from scurvy and pellagra, a surgeon to remove his adenoids and tonsils, a dentist to plug his teeth, and a psychologist to chart the movements, if any, of his IQ . . . multitudes of special classes for backward pupils . . . struggling with the uneducable ... ten or twelve years of intensive...