Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-12-15
ARCHITECTS NOW IN SESSION
GRADUATE SCHOOL FOR CAPT
TAI URGED BY r. A. CRAM.
Bureau of Fine Arts in Washington
Advocated by I. K. Pond-Me-
mortal Meeting Tonight

The forty-second annual convention of
vened in the assembly hall of tlle New
Willard Hotel this morning at 10 o'clock
About one hundred delegates were pres
ent. Cass Gilbert, the president, was in
the chair.
Maj. Morrow was to have made the ad-
dress Of welcome. but was called away
from the city on business. After the ad-
dress Of the president the convention
took up the regular order Of business.
which consisted of the reading of reports
rendered by the several committees
MANY reports were purely technical. but
some held large significance. Among the
latter were reports on ''Allied Arts" read
by Irving X. Pond advocating the es-
tablishment of a national bureau of fine
arts. by means of which architecture
painting and sculpture be brought into
closer relationship. and a report made BY
the committee on education. read by
Ralph Adams Cram. chairman. in which
the establishment of a national graduate
school of architecture in this city was
again strongly urged.
Mr.. Cram outlined instructions on ar
chitecture now given In this country told
or efforts of his committee to have the
term Of study heightened. and explained
wherein the instruction now to he had
abroad. stating that in Paris the Amer
lean student is now regarded with emil
nent respect. and that foreign students
are registering in our schools.
Mr.. Cram said his committee vigorously
Endorsed the proposal to establish ma
tional bureau Of fine arts. and, further
more would again urge the establishment
in this city of a graduate school of ar'chi-
tecture-not to take the place of those
already established in other parts of the
country lint fn
these. For. he said, as Virginia and
Ohio, Massachusetts and California had
distinguishing characteristics, so had the
schools of Cornell, Pennsylvania Column
bia and the Boston School of Technology
but that as practically these were ma
tionalized in Washington. so should a
national art be cultivated here.
Washington is not. he admitted. as yet
one OF the world capitals, such as Lon
don and Paris. but it is tending in this
direction, and can only so become he
insisted, by the establishment Of such
institutions here. Mr.. Crane did not
think that 1T would be possible to have
this school established Immediately. but
urged that it be kept continually in
mind-worked for and believed in
report on competition was read by
Fl. Chpston Sturgis, and one on munich
Clark
There will be a special memorial meet
ing of the institute at the Corcoran Art
Gallery tonight. at which there will be a
number of distinguished speakers. The
services will be in memory of the late
Augustus Saint Gaudens. Short address,
es will be delivered by Secretary of State
Root, Baron Mayor des Pianches, the
Italian ambassador; NJ. Jusserand, the
French ambassador; Senior Nabuco, the
Brazilian ambassador: James Bryce, the
British ambassador: Baron Tak:I,ira, the
Japanese ambassador. and Senior Jose
Godoy, the charge d'affaires of Mexico
The meeting will be followed by a re-
ception from till II o'clock. The re-
ceiving party will consist of Nine. Jus
serand, Mrs. Robert Bacon, Mrs. Cass
Gilbert and Mrs. Glenn Brown