The Worcester spy., 1901-10-04
EVENING SCHOOL CLASSES
WILL MEET MONDAY

The classes of the evening drawing,
modelling and cooking schools will
meet for organization Monday night at
7.3O O'Clock The classes in drawing
and modelling will meet at the Ok
ford Street School. The cooking
classes meet at the old High school
building on Walnut Street. The vari-
Gus classes will be in charge of the
same instructors as last year, except
ing the class for beginners in architec-
tural drawing, which will be taught by
c.. Forrest Wesson, Worcester archi-
tect and former teacher in the same
class.
! The pupils attending and the work
of the various classes each year have
fully demonstrated the usefulness of
! these schools. The work in modelling
will be from casts, drawings and from
nature. The architectural classes will
in the beginning do a certain amount
of geometrical work, copying of plans
and details of building construction,
developing into original architectural
| designs. The mechanical classes Will
first work from geometrical problems,
copying practical working drawings
and later working from machine mod
els and problems in the drawing of
screws and cams. The freehand classes
will study practical perspective in
drawing from models and objects.
Work will be done from plant forms
| in pencil with special attention to
/ treatment and arrangement. Light
and shade will be studied in charcoal
and in wash drawing from models and
still life and from casts. There will
also be a course in design. The ad-
Vanced class will work from casts of
( historic ornament and the human fig
ure. There will be a life class and
work in design and composition.
The practical usefulness of freehand
drawing as a means OF expression is
being appreciated more each year by
the machinist, the carpenter, the
house furnisher in illustrating his ideas,
window decorators, engravers, stone
and wood carvers, architects, teachers
and a list of others too long to emu
merate. The work in design following
the general methods developed by
Ross and Dow will be continued and
increased. The pupils who did this
work last winter found it very helpful
and enjoyable. In many it developed
a marked degree of improvement in
their thought of applied art, a better
taste in its selection and a recognition
of the necessity for a better and more
critical judgment in all things orna-
mental. One of the pupils after a few
of the lessons in design said that he
had never really thought about wheth-
y
! furniture and the like were good or
not. When desiring anything of the
kind he had simply selected something
that caught his fancy and was said by
the dealer to be in good style" or the
--latest thing" Now he is realizing
that there are certain principles that
should govern all.
In the advanced class in addition to
the work from casts and from life,
subjects will be given to the life class
which the pupils will illustrate by orr
ginal compositions, upon which will be
given class and individual criticism. 1t
is hoped that those who intend to join
the various classes will try to be pres
ent Monday night, as it will greatly aid
! the teachers in organizing the work.
Certificates may be obtained at the Of
flee of the clerk of the school commit
tee at the City Hall from until
o'clock during the evenings of this
week.