Morning journal and courier., 1891-06-02
ART SCHOOL GRADUATION.

Professor Weir and President Dwight
 Talk About Hts Outlook and Its
 Needs-Prizes Awarded-Past and
 Present Status-The Reception
 Some of Those Present.
 The graduation exercises of the Yale School of the Fine Arts took place yester day. They began about 11:3O in the morning in the south gallery. About fifty of the students were present. President Dwight, Professors Weir, Niemeyer, and other instructors made short speeches Professor Weir said that the art building as an Fart museum had now more than at tained it's limit, and comprised many col lections, some of which had to be stored for lack of room. There is very urgent need, he said, for an additional new build ing for the increase in the museum, especi- ally as in the future it will have very rapid growth, requiring an enlargement. There has been special addition to the collections in the form of the original of sketches by the old masters, including Michael Angelo, Correggio, Rembrandt and others, and notably Rembrandts famous l etching, "The Hundred Guilder Print" There are besides a number of portfolios of engravings and etchings. Also he mo- | ticed that the school had this year attained l its majority, twenty-o -one years, and in con- 1 nection with this President Dwight an nounced 8 vote of the faculty that the de- gree of bachelor of fine arts be conferred, on the recommendation of the faculty of the school of the fine arts, upon students in that school who have passed saMtishfac; M h tori1y through the elementary, course, and l n o1Hifinr, houo at years' course of advanced study, and have tion in painting or sculpture, and satis- factory thesis on some topic relating to the fine arts. The president also talked about the department of fine arts in con- nection with the general culture of the university.
 About 1, ,o0O works of the students were l exhibited, all of which are this years pro- | duction. The most marked was one by l Miss Josephine M. Lewis, who has been studying for degree. Miss Candee is one of the very best scholars of New Haven. The following received certificates: Bertha P. Atwood, John I. H. Downes of East Haddam, Conn.,; Myria E. Street and Gene l vieve Allis of New Haven.
 Prizes were awarded as follows: The Ethel Childe Walker prize was divided be | tween Mary Foote and Myra E. Dowd. The 1 special prize in painting awarded to Osias B. Dodge (this prize of $10 in gold is given by Miss Porter, to be awarded to the student who made the most marked prog ress in the class in painting during the year,.
 President Dwight said that the freshman class the past year has been the best the
 school has ever seen.
 After the exercises lunch was served
 the students and friends of the art school about half-past 1.
 At the reception in the evening large number of prominent New Haven people
 were present, among whom were President
 Dwight and Miss Dwight, Professor Weir
 and Miss Weir, Professor Niemeyer and
 wife, Professor Hoppin, wife and son
 Miss Clara Thayer, MT. and Mrs. Punder.
 son, Miss Cooper, Mir. Wo1cott H. Ellis
 worth and Miss Holoomb, MT. Seth Fl l Moseley and wife, Saadford Cutler and 1 wife, MT. and Mrs. A. Heaton Robertson
 Professor E. H. Mclaughlin, Dr. O
 P. s. Foster and wife. Dr. McLane
 Dr. Holman, Dr. Fisher, Mrs. Bronson
 and daughter, Mrs. and Miss Cady, Miss i Eleanor Munger and Mir. Philip Wells
 Miss Banks, Miss Mary Hart, Rev. E. s
 Lines, the Misses Fleetwood, the Misses
 Montgomery, Dr. McChesney and wife
 Lawyer L: W. Cleaveland, Professor
 Brewer and daughter and Mrs. Phelps, Mir
 Aiking, Miss Mary Thompson. Quite
 number of students from the academic de partment also attended.