Art Course

There are various ways of "teaching" art. One way is to provide a student with a large tome in which the pictures of various masters are reproduced in color, with a tabloid criticism appended at the bottom of the page. The students regard the picture, memorize the criticism. Once or twice a week they listen to a lecture by a professor and take notes.

Another way is to take the student and put him on a boat for Europe. In order to pass the course he must spend his first five weekends at places selected from the following list: Versailles, Fontainebleau, Chantilly, Saint-Denis, Sevres, Troyes, Amiens, Chartres, the battlefields, Rouen. At the close of the "session," he will travel, in company with his fellow aspirants, for four days through the chateau district of Touraine along the Loire. Then, if he passes an examination, he will receive a credit toward his degree. This way of absorbing historical, architectural and decorative studies has never been generally practiced. There are difficulties