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drawing and design. Such knowledge as can be better and more rapidly acquired by actual office experience is only touched on in a general way, however, in order to leave more time for subjects which can be adequately taught only in an architectural school. During the first three years of the course the History of Architecture is taken up in such a way as to give the student the familiarity with the growth and meaning of architectural forms which will provide him with a basis for practice in original design and enable him to use precedent freely and intelligently...
...much for the principles of, and the methods employed in, the Department, and next to speak of its success as such. During the four years it has been distinct in the Lawrence Scientific School the Department has grown steadily but under rather adverse conditions. The little house on Holmes Field beside being inconveniently situated provides very cramped and unsatisfactory quarters. It is improbable, however, that any change can be made at present as lack of funds is a positive check in this instance. In regard to the future of the Department it is felt that a training in architecture...
...present grounds. The old Yard gives the impression of a tolerably regular quadrangle-but Sever Hall is not symmetrically disposed towards other buildings; the Art Museum and the Chapel jog each other and are just not on an axis; the Jefferson Laboratory faces the rear of the Scientific School and Austin Hall regards the rear of the Gymnasium, while Hastings is a feature entirely by self. The Carey Building...
MISS POST'S School for Instruction in Dancing at Pierce Hall, Copley Square, Boston. Private lessons a specialty. Monday evenings a special class for instruction in the new dances. Office hours 9-11 a. m. daily...
...Architectural Department is now in its fourth year as a distinct department in the Lawrence Scientific School and has 64 students, some fifty of whom are regular members of the Scientific School, ten of the Academic Department, and four men who received A. B. degrees. Next year in addition to the requirements of the Scientific School, those who intend to study architecture will be obliged to pass in both the History of Greece and Rome and the History of the United States and England, as well as in Freehand Drawing, and in the following year the new requirements for admission...