New-York tribune., 1902-06-28
FREE COURSES FOR ART STU DENTS
THE NATIONAL. ACADEMY OF DESIGN AboL-
IsHEs FEES FOR TUITION

ri, >-.io,aI Academy of Design has decided 10
abolish all fees for tuition in the GLASSES %
schools at One-hundred- -and-ninth-st- anu
dam-aye When the schools open on oc''
rax+ NO turion fees whatever will be reqliieu
for admission to the antique. life palhtlis' sun
life illustration and composition Grasses <AN
sion to the schools may be obtained through 'ie
examinations held on September % and January
2s next Regarding this new policy fFeoerioN
Dielman president OF the National Academy o.
Design said yesterday Tribune reporter;
The extension of the free school system to cover
all the classes of the academy Will prov ~ ,bs
institution As TO the students. much OF our EtrS
best material is drawn. not from the leisure 70
earn a living from their early youth. TO these.
naturally the remission OF ali tar tuII9n ar some Who
work at trades in the early morning before com
hs these - are the abest-who work hard and well in
the night life cla sses until 10 o'clock atteE E hnvE ~
put in good days work ana tnree , hoJee iee+rc %
steady work from the model under the e,ectFe 81
light. is enough to tax severely ''e S'iens'" u
To the Institution the abolition OF all tuition ITes
Of any educational Institution must suffer when
financial considerations necessarily affect It's man
academy does not and can not conduct its schooLs
for the purpose of getting a revenue 1t does not
denfs irrespective Of their ability natural tai
b4eb SrhonI for Professional artists and rather
to discourage amateurs and diettanteisnl An 's,I-
ditonaI endowment of $4,000 would make us in
dependent of financial considerations. and enable
us to carry on the academy schools on a rational
basis and with greatest efficiency.
Irving r. Wiles. chairman of the school COM
mittee of the National Academy of Design. said
there had bee! general feeling among the acS-
demicians that II would be greatly TO the advan-
tase of pupils abolish tuition fees and all along
there had been a disposition 10 make the fees
low as possible. and the time pay run
ming expenses 1t was desired TO help art students
as much as possible and let them have the same
advantages at the academy before. almost
expense.
VIII II. Low. a member of the school committee
of the National Academy of Design said:
look upon the total abolition of fees for tuition
schools of the most important of
the progressive actions of the National Academy
OF Design. With all the interest in the study of
evinced by the numerically strong existing
schools. Ncw-York has heretofore lacked art
school like that Of the Ecoe deS Beaux Arts. in
Paris. where the success of the work undertaken
is not dependent upon the hnanca! return from
tuition fees The expense OF maintaining a school
with no other income than that received from pu-
pills neCeSSitateS the admission of large numbers
of scholars. many Of whom would be excluded if
high standard of capacity We're enforced. The
EcOle des BeauX Arts maintains this standard.
with the result that its students drawn from
the ranks OF those having received preliminary in
struCtion elsewhere. and who have demonStrat ted
their fitness for their vocation