BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH 49 



After her visit to the Hofmann laboratory and to Frau 

 Liebermann's, she went to the Industrial School Museum, a 

 building adjoining the Ethnological Museum, where there 

 was an exhibition of students' industrial art work. Mr. Ewald, 

 the director, conducted her over the room. She says: "All 

 that has an industrial feature is taught in the building. Those 

 departments which teach a trade where it is impossible for a 

 woman to get employment are of course not attended by wo- 

 men-students. Both sexes work together. Professor Ewald 

 told me he was the one to push forward the idea of admitting 

 women, and to allow them to work freely in the classes with 

 men. There is an exception in the life-classes, where women 

 are not allowed. They study from the living model in the pre- 

 paratory school, but in divided classes from the men. The other 

 classes in the preparatory school are also divided, not from 

 prejudice, Professor Ewald answered me, but because the 

 classes of both sexes were sufficiently large to admit of separate 

 classes, and that the women preferred to be alone. They only 

 joined the classes in the higher school because the women were 

 very few in number. The girls working in the few rooms which 

 were occupied at the time I came, were timid and unaggressive, 

 and seemed as if they were unable to resist any masculine pres- 

 sure, and seeing the character of these girls, I did not wonder 

 at the impossibility of their working with men in the labora- 

 tories. Yet Ewald told me they had never any trouble, and 

 all went on peaceably. There were drawings from casts, the 

 flat, and from life. One room was devoted to modeling. The 

 models for beginners are first modeled in wax, part yellow and 

 part white wax, colored. The vases are modeled in sections, 

 then joined. All the fine modeling is done likewise in wax. 

 There are classes of anatomy but given with the skeleton and 

 few plaster casts. The etchings were very interesting. . . . 



"The Lette-Verein is a large house, more like an apartment 

 house, utilized to serve the purposes of the school. They take 

 some boarders. The girls eat on a long table in the middle of 

 the restaurant, whilst persons from the street eat on small side 

 tables. The rooms are small, and the classes come in different 

 numbers for several hours each day. The lady who conducted 



