Vol. XIX, No. 12. 
SYRACUSE, NEW YORK 
April 1918 
E notice with pleasure that dealers 
are beginning to take interest in 
glass shapes and to advertise their 
stock. We receive constantly let- 
ters from decorators in small places 
asking us where they can find glass 
shapes. In fact decorators are, as 
we expected, paying much attention 
to this work in addition to their 
work in china which is handicapped 
by the scarcity and high prices. And finally dealers seeing 
this growing demand are making arrangements for handling 
glass in addition to their regular lines of china. 
One dealer writes to us: "Glass is fast supplanting china 
for the amateur decorator. Many designs for china may 
just as well be applied to glass and we are surprised that more 
dealers are not advertising glass in your columns. We have 
tried it for over a year and find that we have worked up quite 
a trade for the glass itself. We are sending you an advertise- 
ment of our glass stock for the April issue." 
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Dean Bossange of the School of Applied Design, Carnegie 
Institute of Technology, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, announces 
some special courses for undergraduates which will bring about 
a more complete co-operation between the High Schools and 
an Art School than has been accomplished elsewhere. These 
qualifying courses, as they are called, are to be given on Satur- 
days and are open to all students of High Schools or Prepara- 
tory Schools of corresponding grade. Instruction will be en- 
tirely technical in character and being limited to Saturday 
mornings will not interfere in any way with the work of the 
High Schools. The main object of the course is to encourage 
the boys and girls of Pittsburgh and vicinity to begin their 
technical work in art when they are still in the impressionable 
age. 
These courses will make it possible for a High School stu- 
dent to do four years of elementary technical work before he 
enters the design school and begins the advanced technical work 
leading to the Bachelor's Degrees offered in the five arts repre- 
sented in that institution. 
It is not expected that all students taking these courses 
will attempt to become artists. The courses will be of value 
nevertheless to those who do not continue because of the 
educational discipline involved, and the wider appreciation 
of art and deeper interest in it that will be^ awakened. Higher 
standards and better art should result from this co-operation. 
When it is realized that High School students having taken 
four years of qualifying work and four of advanced technical 
work will have had eight consecutive years of the best techni- 
cal training before receiving their degrees, the optimism of 
those in charge of the courses seems fully justified. 
Courses will be offered in Architectural Drafting, Free- 
hand Drawing and Modeling as preparation for entrance 
to the Department of Architecture. In the Department of 
Painting and Decoration instruction will be given in Free- 
hand Drawing, Design, Color, Sketching from costume model 
and a short course in Modeling. In the department of Music in- 
struction will be given in all instruments of the symphony 
orchestra, each student receiving one individual lesson of 
one-half hour per week. In addition to this, class lessons 
in Solfeggio and Elementary Harmony will be given and a 
weekly orchestra rehearsal. In the department of Dramatic 
Arts instruction will consist of exercises in diction, pantomime, 
the rehearsal and public performance of simple one act plays 
and a short period of Folk Dancing. Department of sculpt- 
ure offers a course in modeling in clay, beginning with very 
simple forms and -advancing as rapidly as the ability of the 
student will justify. 
For the present the Design School will limit those courses 
to 180 students, selected by competition from those recom- 
mended by the principals. The courses will continue for a 
period of fifteen weeks. At the end of that period an exhi- 
bition will be held and a concert and dramatic performance 
given. An enrollment fee of five dollars is required but this 
fee will be returned to those who do satisfactory work and are 
regular in attendance. 
WS.S. 
WAR SAVINGS STAMPS 
ISSUED 
BY THE 
UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT 
W. S. S. DESIGN COMPETITION 
The War Savings Committee of New York, Frederick W. 
Allen, director, has organized a design competition for Poster, 
Cartoon, Newspaper Advertisement, Window Card, etc., with 
prizes of $2,000, as follows: 
Poster — First prize, $1,000; second prize, $300. Designs 
to be made in proportion to 24 inches wide by 36 inches high . 
Shape and size optional with the designer, the work does not 
have necessarily to fill the entire area. 
Newspaper, Magazine Advertisement, and Cartoon — First 
prize, $250; second prize, $100. Designs to be in proportion 
to quarter, half or full page newspaper, or in proportion to 5f 
inches wide by 8 inches high for magazines. 
Car Card and Window Card — First prize, $250; second 
prize, $100. Car card designs in proportion to 21 inches vude 
by 11 inches high. Size optional for window cards. 
The competition will close on April 25th. All entries must 
be sent prepaid, carefully packed. Any medium may be used, 
pen and ink, oil, water color, chalk, etc. Competitors may 
send in as many designs as they wish and enter all classes or 
two or one, as preferred. Text matter or wording is left en- 
tirely to the designer, but the W. S. S. mark illustrated with 
this notice must appear in all designs, and if the designs are in 
color, this mark should be yellow for the background, blue for 
the lettering, bands and medallion. 
Address all entries and inquiries to W. S. S. Competition, 
American Institute of Graphic Arts, 119 E. 19th St., New York. 
