DEPARTMENT OF DRAWING 



TEACHING 



For the past year the number of students taking work in the several 

 courses in the Department of Drawing was as fohows : 



Course 



First 

 semester 



Second 

 semester 



Elementary Mechanical Drawing . 

 Elementary Freehand Drawing. . 



Applied Drawing 



Perspective . 



3 



5 



7 Freehand Sketching. 



30 

 12 



14 



Total. 



65 



32 



24 



12 



4 



3 



75 



Adding the number for both terms gives a total of 140, as against 130 

 for the preceding year. This shows a gain of 10, or nearly eight per cent. 



Every graduate of this College should have had a course in mechanical 

 drawing, enabling him to read readily building plans and simple machine 

 drawings. That the general student realizes his need for such knowledge 

 is shown, not only by the increased attendance, but also by the fact that 

 many students have been prevented from registering in this course because 

 of conflicts with other courses scheduled at the same hours. In order to 

 meet this demand additional classes must soon be formed, and this will 

 require increased teaching force. 



Scientific classification, and all judging, or scoring, are based on a 

 consideration of relative size, form, color, and position ; and freehand 

 drawing is the only course in which the student makes a study of relative 

 size, form, color, and position as such. Drawing is form study, and so 

 are all the morphological sciences ; hence the value of drawing to the 

 scientist. The courses in freehand drawing (2, 3, 5, and 7) are intended 

 especially to aid the scientific student in his graphic expression of form. 

 In these courses, as shown above, about forty students were registered for 

 each term. 



Heretofore instruction in the perspective drawing required of the stu- 

 dents in landscape art has been given in the College of Architecture. 

 Accommodation there being too limited, it became necessary for this 

 Department to undertake such instruction. As a result, Course 5 has 



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