BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH 
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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 
