The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-05-11
TO Be COLUMBIA ART SCHOOL.
o DESIGN TO JOIN
WITH THE UNIVERSITY.
Project Approved AZ Artists Annual Gath
erinE-PublIc Expected TO Provide
$500 900 for a Building IN South Fled
Opposition Beaten by Cl,se Vote.

PROB Approved AZ Artists Annual Gath
erinE-PubIic Expected TO Provide
$500 900 for a Building IN South Fled
Opposition Beaten by Cl'se Vote.
Providing the New York public, on
solicitation OF both Columbia University
and the National Academy OF Design. pro-
vides $500, 900 for a building Columbia will
furnish a site for the school OF design now
conducted by the National Academy, and
the university and the academy will CO.
operate in conducting il as a great art
school,
In these words H. W. Watrous. CORE
spending secretary Of the National Academy
summarized last evening the result OF the
most protracted and sharply contested
meeting in the eighty years OF the academy,
with the solitary exception Of the meeting
at which many OF the members seeded TO
form the Society Of American Artists in
1877.
FoTty-fve Of the eighty-seven aoade-
micians gathered in toe annual meeting at
2 o. clock and it was after clock that the
meeting adjourned. Apart from the an
nual election OF officers and OF associates
and academiciSns the only business wac
consideration Of the project conceived by
President Nicholas Murray Butler Of Co
lumbia for the establishment Of a school
Of fine arts at the university and formally
impaired by him to the academy in jan
uary
In this communication President Butler
announced that the trustees Of the univer-
sity had decided TO reorEaniEe the school
Of architecture, now practically defunct,
to place with II the school Of music. 70
establish chairs in the history and criticism
Of the fine arts and to donate a site for a
building provided the academy would
combine its courses with those established
or 10 be established by Columbia Funds
for the building were to be raised by public
subscription. The proposition was sub
mitted 10 the Council Of the National Acad-
envy and approved after long deliberation
Opposition was raised by academicians.
on the ground that the plan meant the au-
bordination Of the academy TO Columbia
and a practical abolition Of the Rcademy's
school Of design.
The points raised by the directors were
voted down by bare two-thirds vote.
the number necessary 10 carry the project,
on representations by the majority that
the academy was not 10 be assimilated
with Columbia OF merged with Il, but was 10
preserve it's own identity.
The resolution provides that the rni-
verslty is TO give the plot known a. South
Field at the corner Of Broadway and liOth
street, providing the necessary funds are
raised; that the name Of the National Aoad-
deny Of Design shall be preserved on the
building TO be erected by q suitable tablet;
that there shall be established a faculty
Of fine arts consisting Of the university
president, the academy president and lie
professors OF the school, and that the pro-
fessors shall be selected by the trustees
Of the university with the approval OF the
council Of the academy.
Pending the completion Of the project
the academy will rebuild the structural I'm
t0eth street, which was damaged by fire
and conduct the school Of design there
Since the fire the school has been iu one
Of the Columbia buildings.
No action was taken 70 bring About n
junction OF the academy with the Society
Of American Artists, but Il was said that
negotiations TO that effect are in proRrees,
There was no conflict regarding the
election Of officers and aoademIcians
though In the selection OF associates an
architect, Charles =. MoKim, and q wood
enRraver. Henry Wolfe were admitted, Ire
first time those branches have rad repFe-
ssntation. These are the new ohicere: Presl-
dent Frederick Dielman; vioe-preeident
Herbert Adams; corresponding secretary,
II. W. Watroua; recording secretary, Win n
Low; treasurer Lockwood DeFOreat.
Theae new mambera were uhospn.
Academicans, Prank W. Benson, william
7. smedley, Charles Crazy and william