Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1890-01-15
SCHOOL oF DESIGN.
Awarding Free scholarships--An oppor-
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Awarding Free SchoIarships-An Oppor-
tunity to Aid Worthy Ambition.
Some three weeks ago the late Brie-a-
Brac Club in disorganizing gave to the
Ladies Museum Association nearly $500.
in trust for the endownmentof free scholar
ships in the Sacramento School of Design
at the City art Gallery. To that sum the
Ladies' Museum Association added some
thing over $500 for the same purpose.
Notices were given that applicants for the
scholarships should notify the Association
by the 10Th inst. A large number did SO,
and from the lists the Directory of the
Association selected twelve names of those
mostlikely to be benefited, and so situated as
not able to secure the benefits OF the school
without aid. These were notified to appear
at the E. B. Crocker Art Gallery yesterday,
and hear the regulations adopted by which
three are to be chosen from all, as bene-
ficiaries of the fund.
Six accepted the invitation under the
agreement, if chosen, to go through q
thorough course of study, probably for
three years, or even more. One of them,
resident of Placerville, Miss Weatherwax,
was at once entered as pupil under the
trust, her qualifications being known, as she
had once been pupil of the school. The
other five were notified to attend for few
weeks, all their expenses for materials being
paid, meanwhile, by the Ladies' Associa-
ton. After they have been in the school
two weeks, or perhaps three two will be
chosen as recipients of the scholarships,
their tuition being guaranteed for three
years, subject TO good behavior and devel-
opment of ability. The three to be retired,
will, If found to possess ability, be recon-
mended as worthy TO be recipients of the
gift of scholarships from some other institu-
ton, or some person of means willing 10
contribute to this worthy educational work.
1t is to be hoped that some one will be
moved to put up $500 and secure to three
the privileges of the school. The California
Museum Association has made special and
very advantageous terms for such endow-
ments. and by which the sum named may
be made the means of educating in design
ing three pupils for three and third years,
or two for five years, or one each year for
ten years. or five for two years. The privi-
lege is given in this arrangement of substi-
tuting one for another in case of death, re-
moval or incompetency.
1t will be a very regretful task for the
Ladies Association to notify three of the
five who entered yesterday that they must
retire, but it will be done unless some
great-hearted person, or group Of persons,
comes forward and secures the three their
chairs in the school. As no one now
knows who of the contestants will remain,
the names of the whole are withheld in
common justice 1t may not be generally
known that one prominent citizen has for
two years regularly paid the tuition for
one scholar in the school, and that his
pupil, whom he does not even know, has
done his beneyOlence great honor, and is
to-day earning fair sum by designing IN a
county not far distant from this city.
Yesterday there arrived at the school
from San Diego Miss Ida Prick, who has
ability and is determined to win, and to
that end chose the Sacramento School. To
pay her tuition this young lady works GER
tain hours of the day for the requisite SUD-
port. 1t is of such material as this that
successful scholars are developed. There
are pupils still in the school who, in order
to enjoy the advantages, have worked ex-
ira hours and at night to maintain them
selves for two years past, and in all cases
such pupils have succeeded in their desires.
All these facts are cleaned from converse
ton with officers of the School of Design
and the Art Instructor. There might be
added to them others equally interesting
did space permit. The school opened its
fifth year on the first Monday in this
month and with a gratifying attendance.
The Saturday class, established for the ben
eft of school teachers and pupils in the
public schools, is not so large as it should
bet should, say the officers, have half a
hundred pupils at the very least, when the
advantages it offers are considered and the
number of scholars and teachers in the
public schools is taken into account.