Editorial 
House&Garden 
Vol. I. DECEMBER, 1901. No. 7. 
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HOUSE AND GARDEN, 
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Copyrighted, sgoi, by The Architectural Publishing Company. 
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June, igoi. 
“ A BOYS’SCHOOL IN THE COUN- 
t\ TRY” has just been announced as the 
subject for the thesis design of Ehe John Stew- 
ardson Memorial Scholarship in Architecture. 
The scholarship is maintained under the aus¬ 
pices of the University of Pennsylvania and 
the competitive examinations are to be held 
next January in the School of Architecture. 
The preliminary examinations will be in free¬ 
hand drawing, history of architecture, con¬ 
struction and one modern language. Those 
who are ranked sufficiently high will be in¬ 
vited to enter the final competition, the prepa¬ 
ration of the prescribed design. A preliminary 
sketch must be made at the University itself 
between the hours of 10 a. m. and 10 p. m., 
and three weeks are allowed for completing 
the finished drawings. An award of one 
thousand dollars is to be used for a year’s 
travel and study abroad under the direction 
of the Managing Committee. 
F or ten years or more similar traveling 
scholarships have been maintained in sev¬ 
eral of our largest cities. They have done 
much for the development of the younger 
generation of architects. Throughout that 
length ol time those European countries 
considered to be the most prolific in archi¬ 
tectural monuments have become known to 
successful competitors and by means of draw¬ 
ings made by them and returned to the 
authorities, students at home have been 
enabled to study the finest examples of an 
architectural past. England, France and 
Italy have been the countries most frequently 
and thoroughly explored, to such an extent, 
indeed, that celebrated buildings there have 
been drawn and redrawn, measured and re¬ 
measured,—are in fact, nowadays, somewhat 
over-familiar. Standing before them, the 
traveling student often realizes little to be 
added to the impression already gained from 
photographs and drawings before leaving 
home. In the effort to increase the material 
to submit to a committee exacting a given 
number of drawings some of the recent 
studies have approached in their character 
the researches of archaeology. We remem¬ 
ber that two students once spent three weeks 
in measuring and drawing the Baths of Cara- 
calla,a remnant of antiquity nowalmostdevoid 
of architectural form and of which able re¬ 
productions have long since been made. 
F ar trom suggesting an aimless mode of 
student travel which might result from a 
laxity in the requirements of managing com¬ 
mittees, and while not underestimating the 
value of envois of the past, it would seem to 
us a possibility for future scholarships that 
new fields of study be sought and a new 
value added to a year’s stay in Europe. 
Caution should be taken to avoid a sacrifice 
of time in localities already familiar and upon 
works already well recorded. Are there not 
other and more efficient ways of relating 
the study of the European past to the needs 
of the American present and future, to make 
older work live and contribute to the new ? 
It might be wise at the present stage to offer 
inducements to our traveling scholars to seek 
less well-known countries than heretofore 
selected almost as a matter of course. Could 
not our managing committees encourage indi¬ 
vidual lines of study from which would 
doubtless follow excellent original results ? 
A student should be not only permitted, but 
encouraged to substitute for some of his 
measured drawings an investigation of a sub¬ 
ject which had suggested itself to him during 
his previous experience in the university or 
the office. Devotion to such a subject of 
personal interest would add a new value to 
our traveling scholarships and a new coherency 
to their results. 
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