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PLAN OF THE SECOND FLOOR 
generation may be connected with another and new 
men may profit by the progress made by their prede¬ 
cessors. We hear the repeated criticism that every 
institution of learning is an obstacle to independence, 
but if there is any branch of art that requires sober 
and serious knowledge and training it certainly is 
the profession of architecture. 
It is only the architecture based upon tradition that 
can live, for, as every department of our modern life 
and civilization depends upon and is traceable to 
tradition, just so much the buildings which house us 
bow to that tradition. We cannot deny tradition any 
more than we can deny history. Nor can we dis¬ 
pense with it nor ignore the sequence of the evolution 
in our modern architecture. 
Acknowledging tradition, therefore, we go to 
Paris and to the Ecole-des-Beaux-Arts where we find 
its teachings in the very air we breathe. We go 
there to become imbued with the inspiration that 
comes with the study of the past; we go there to 
live in an atmosphere of the beautiful things of 
antiquity; and then we come home to a country 
which has no tradition, which has no art history, 
which has seemingly little or no respect for the 
things of the past. We come to a country where the 
watchword is independence, where everyone is 
going forward, not stopping to look hack, and miss¬ 
ing the appreciation of all the fine things we have 
learned, we who have been over there and who all 
have the same feelings and tastes, get together to 
talk over again and again the days spent in Paris. 
We believe so thoroughly in it all that we try to 
spread the little knowledge that we have obtained. 
This was the beginning of the Society of Beaux-Arts 
Architects. 
We may not admire certain traits of the French 
people as judged from our own standards, but we 
must frankly admit that the French people are the 
real artistic thinkers and workers of to-day. It is 
too often forgotten that the French people are leading 
us in nearly all the things that we are developing. 
France is distinctly a nation of research. They are 
always searching for something new. They never 
let well enough alone. Their patience is infinite, 
their mastery of detail beyond understanding. 
We are apt in this country to attach too much 
importance to failures, not realizing that failures are 
absolutely necessary to success. It is not what a 
man produces always that makes for the better in 
the affairs of the world, hut it is this continual effort 
which is being made all along the lines which raises' 
the standard of our performances. It is not possible 
for one man to make a success of everything, hut 
fortunately his failures are soon forgotten and his 
successes only are remembered. It is not necessary 
for a man to do more than one great thing in his life 
to he remembered. Waste in all matters soon dis¬ 
appears and is forgotten, the good it is that lives. 
We try too much to achieve results by the shirttest 
route; we try to save labor and trouble and to reach 
our end by the shortest way. It is better to work 
along doing the best we can with every detail, and 
if we do this the results will take care of themselves. 
Farnestness of purpose and honesty of expression are 
the all important factors, and these are the cap and 
corner stone of the Society of Beaux-Arts Architects. 
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