The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1905-10-13
QUARTERLY
MEETING
OF TRUSTEES

On W NedneSday AFTERNOON tne tIuSNe'S
of the Rhode Island School of Design
held their quarterly meeting in the
school building when the reports of the
director OF the museum committee and
other important reports were read.
During the meeting mention was also
made of the progress seen i'm the erec-
ton Of the museum for the Pendelton col
lection and the new wing for the rnu-
scum The library committee stated that
a large increase was expected during the
next few months. OF books relating to
the fine arts. a number OF these coming
in from abroad.
Director f.. Il. Homer made a report
that the attendance for the present year
up TO this time was very encouraging and
the force of instructors had been in
creased materially. The remainder of his
report was in brief as follows. The in
creased attendance is principally in the
day classes. the day students numbering
30 more than last year.
The Brown university class i'm freehand
drawing Is larger than in past years and
includes 81 students.
The registration 10 oct. Z, the end OF
the second week. included li6 day stu
dents, S42 evening students and 162 Sat
urday students, making a total OF go
registered at the corresponding period
OF last year
The num6er of scholarships given by
the state and city remains practically the
same and includes 26o students, or 80
per cent OF the students enrolled. The
number OF, scholarships last year was 10
per cent
painting the new instructors. William {.
Loring and Isaac Ii. Hazelton, were con-
Quoting class work I'm an energetic man
ner I'm ways that seem 10 appeal very
strangly TO our advanced students The
new class In illustration, started this
year under Mr.. Hazelton's direction, has
already 10 students enrolled. and II is
known that others will join at an early
date.
The report of the museum committee
was I'm part as follows
. The registered attendance In the mu-
scum during the summer months this
year has been 547i. divided as follows:
June 2l04, July S53 August go, September
1872 In the corresponding months In 1904
there were in June 1906, July 1s49, August
ll19, September 2l0S. making a total OF
607l,
During the summer the engraving cases
were put back in their places in the gal
lery and filed with colored photographs
by William Nicholson from the collection
of Isaac G. Bates. The other small gall
lery was rehung with paintings. NAmons
them was a large painting by j. y. Bar
low, entitled. The Evening Star" and
loaned by the Tllden-Thurber company.
At present there is hung in this gallery
a number of paintings made during the
summer by Carl j. Nordell.
The committee is now occupied in MAX
ing a more extended and complete cata-
logue and classification OF the gifts and
loans I'm possession OF the museum
The museum has received as gifts from
Isaac c. Bates a whistling vase of Peru
Wan make in the time OF the Incas. and
four small bronzes Of the same period.
Miss Jane w. Bucklin has presented a
framed Japanese color print by Hiro-
shige. AS further gifts the museum has
received from Mrs. S. &. Darling an In
dian bracelet. and from Mrs. T.. Kenyon
n pair OF antique spectacles
The museum has also received from Mr.
Sogo Matsumoto valuable collection OF
107 pieces OF fine old Japanese brocades
and cotton fabrics.
In addition to the autographs, Mr.
Bates has loaned to the museum three
interesting copies OF old German cathedral
glass
A number OF valuable and interesting
exhibitions will be held this winter, but
although the committee has been in cor
respondence with regard to them for sew
eral months. they have not been able TO
have the dates for them definitely fixed.