The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1907-05-29
pRAwING IN cITY SCHOOLS.
Exhibit Starts at Mathewson Building
Tomorrow.

1t u hoped that all the pupils parents
and friends Of the schools win make a
special effort to attend the drawing ext
hibit which opens Friday at p. mg, as
announced ii another column
The people Of Barre do not need to
Be reminded 81 the value Of this depart
ment in an Industrial city. Boys are
already securing places in our drafting
offices, and those who are taking the en-.
gineering course at the universities are
ranking high because they know how to
draw as we'll as compute. But drawing
has two other values seldom taken into
account. 1t trains tho critical judgment
and the power to appreciate the beauti-
ful. As proof Of the former, one Of
the grammar grade teachers volunteers
tho statement that she can get her pupils
to think more during the drawing period
than IN any other exercise. Every time
the pupil compares tones, shapes or meas.
lures. estimates proportions or distance,
decides upon spacing Or suitability, meas
Iures Of plans his drawing in the right
way, he Is training his observation and
Judgment for greater tasks in the fur
lture.
/ President Elicit Of Harvard says that
after reading, spelling, writing and
| eiphering with small numbers and In sim
lple operations, drawing should be the
/ most important common school subject. Z
He declares that y II monstrous for a
school to give much time to compound
numbers, bank discount, stenography or
Greek aud little or no time to drawing.
HE further adds that "the main object
4 in every school should be, not to pro-
! vide the children with the means Of
earning livelihood, but to show them
how to live a happy and worthy life in
spired BY ideals which exalt and dignity
both labor and leisure. To see the beau.
4 tn and to live II i 70 possess large secu-
trities for such d life
/ Before our drawing department was
linaugurated most of the teachers gave
no time to drawing because they felt
| they could not teach it, but this year
during the two terms absence Of the
drawing supervisor, they have faithfully
carried out the work according to her
outlines and previous directions. So the
greater part Of the work on exhibitions
/ is the result Of lessons given BY the
regular grade teachers alone. Drawing in
1.-THE lNth grade, high school and special
7 Saturday class was necessarily omitted
while the supervisor was away 40 their
exhibit represents only about seven
weeks work in lettering design and en-
larged ornament And as only one 50-
4 minute period per week is given by the
high school to to drawing, some Of the
best work could not be completed in
ftinle for rhe exhibit
/ Much OF the manual work shown last
4 year had TO be omitted also for most
grade teachers have little strength left
for the extra after-sehool lessons this
work requires; but the children are a.
enthusiastic as ever about such work
and are already making designs for APP
4 piication during the summer.
Visitors are requested to begin with
the lowest grade to inspect the exhibit
So to note the gradual growth OF con
scious. painstaking effort from the free
expression Of the primary illustrations
to tho most studied compositions Of the
eighth grade.
4 By giving the children all three
classes Of drawing, representation, con-
struetion and design, they become better
able to soc and 10 know and to do. by
1 using several different mediums of ex-
I preston, pencil, ink, color, etc, they gain
a certain mastery over materials and
over themselves that has more than a
meme commercial value.