DEPARTMENT OF DRAWING. 



TEACHING. 



Heretofore, FreehariH Drawing in the College of Agriculture has been 

 a required subject. At the beginning of the present year it became an 

 elective. It was therefore to be expected that, inasmuch as drawing is 

 not one of the popular or so-called " practical " subjects, there would 

 result a very noticeable falling off in registration ; and such was the case. 

 However, all things considered, the number of students taking work in 

 the department was very gratifying, there being no less than sixty the first 

 term and thirty-five the second. This difference in numbers is accounted 

 for by the fact that the course in Elementary Mechanical Drawing was 

 given only in the first term and that there were also a number of students 

 from the upper classes taking their required drawing. 



Not only was Freehand Drawing made elective but it was extended, 

 being made a year subject instead of one term, for the reason that drawing 

 requires time and practice and one term is not considered as sufficient 

 to acquire a working knowledge of the subject. 



The Sketch Class, Rural Art 83, has also been extended from one to 

 two semesters to give the students specializing in this field greater 

 facility in graphic expression, for which there is quite as great need in 

 Rural Art as in Architecture, and architectural students are usually 

 required to undergo much longer training in drawing. Thus the students 

 in Rural Art who must also have taken Course 2 will have had at least 

 two full years of Freehand Drawing and will be better equipped to enter 

 their profession. Of the students in Applied Drawing, one has actually 

 been doing professional scientific illustration while another has become 

 scientific draughtsman in a southern experiment station. 



For the first time there was given in the College, in the first semester 

 in the present year, a course in Elementary Mechanical Drawing. It 

 has evidently met a need in the training of students of certain depart- 

 ments of Agriculture and therefore in the coming year will be given 

 both terms, instead of the one, enabling a greater number of students to 

 avail themselves of the opportunity afforded by such a course. 



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