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the refining influence of over two hundred and fifty years. Its 
great teaching has always applied and it applies just as broadly 
to-day: its extraordinary educational record makes it unques¬ 
tionably, in the minds of most people, the greatest live school of 
architecture in the world. 
The idea of the Society of Beaux-Arts Architects in establish¬ 
ing the “Paris Prize” was, that they should send the most 
worthy and promising pupil of the Society over to France to 
represent the Society in the mother school. A qualifying com¬ 
petition was therefore organized for the purpose of choosing a 
student to hold this honor, and who having won the competition, 
should pursue his studies in the First Class of the Ecole des 
Beaux-Arts of Paris, according to the regulations especially 
adopted by the French Ministry of Public Instruction and Fine 
Arts to cover these particular cases, and which in general terms 
provide that: 
Those young men specially described as “Foreign Scholars,” 
who are presented to the French Government in the quality of 
“Paris Prize Scholars,” are authorized to follow the lectures and 
to take part in the competitions of the first class in the Section 
of Architecture, subject to the approval of the Faculty; 
That the “Prize Scholar” must have obtained this title by a 
special competition, publicly organized, in view of this recom¬ 
pense: 
That this competition can be held only by societies composed 
exclusively of old students of the School of Fine Arts, or of the 
Reginal School of Fine Arts of France, and having at least one 
hundred members. 
The scholar must produce a certificate coming from the Di¬ 
rector or President of the Society charged with the direction of 
the competition, attesting that he has already successfully com¬ 
pleted studies corresponding to those exacted by the regulations 
of the preliminary studies of the second class in the Section of 
Architecture of the National School of Fine Arts. 
Presentation of the scholars to the French Government is made 
by the Embassy or Legation of their country. 
The studies of the “ Foreign Scholars” are regulated by the 
articles of the regulations applicable to the first class of the 
School of Fine Arts. These Scholars cannot, however, profit 
from prizes attached to the various competitions, nor obtain the 
diploma of architecture reserved for the French and Foreign 
Students who have made all their studies at the School of Fine 
Arts or at one of the Reginal Schools of Architecture. The limit 
of age for participation in all French competitions is thirty years. 
The above regulations do not apply to “Foreign Scholars” 
who have followed all the prescribed studies, including the ex¬ 
aminations for admission to the second class of the Ecole des 
Beaux-Arts, or who during the course of these studies shall have 
profited by the scholarship under consideration. 
If the winner of the “Paris Prize” competition is unable to 
qualify according to the above regulations before the Jury of the 
Society of Beaux-Arts Architects within six months after the judg¬ 
ment of the final drawings of the competition, then he shall not 
receive the appointment and the prize will lapse for the current 
year. The jury examines the aspirant generally on the subjects 
referred to in the above regulations, which consist of the princi¬ 
ples which underlie architectural construction, history, perspective 
and design. 
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