SCHOOL OF ART.
TO THE EDITOR. Sir, —Various have been the methods adopted from time to time in endeavouring to improve the mental, physical and social conditions of people. There are in the Old ' Country magnificent buildings, splendid monuments of individual philanthropy, wherein every facility is provided for technical instruction to those whose social status does not afford them sufficient means to obtain scientific learning elsewhere. ‘There is scarcely a town of note which does not possess its School of Arts, and many instances might be quoted of those in humble positions having carried off the coveted honours. To many it may be news that our philanthropic Professor is endeavouring to establish, in a small way, a School of Art in our midst, for those in humble circumstances' to have a chance of making a beginning, by way of incentive for those who possess talent, to enter the Canterbury College School of Art. The writer had a cursory inspection of the productions of some of the pupils in the Hall of Science, Chancery Lane, on Saturday evening last. It was a pleasure to observe the adolescent youth of both sexes eagerly scanning the drawings, paintings, sculpture and other objects of interest. Music ad libitum, and all free! Now, I maintain if the worthy Professor could see his way to open the hall one night—most suitable—every week independent of -the art class, at the charge of one penny towards gas, rent, &c., crowds would take the opportunity of visiting the same, when one night would be devoted, say, to music, another to lectures, the next to debate, the next to a concert, and so on. If something like this plan, on a given night, once a week, was adopted, numbers would look forward to be able to spend an instructive, agreeable and social evening, and obtain a degree of intellectual recreation which hitherto could only be bad at too high a figure.—l am, &c., 11.0.
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Lyttelton Times, Volume XCVII, Issue 11224, 23 March 1897, Page 6
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