PROF. PAUL H. GRUMMANN

School of Fine Arts

OR the first time since its reorganization in 1912 the School of Fine Arts will be in a position to do its work without serious inconvenience and with the facilities essential to the best work. The erection of Morrill Hall on the east section of the present campus, near Bessey Hall, will greatly help every department of the School, and will fill a long-felt need among Fine Arts students.

   For thirteen years the department of Drawing and Painting has been giving instruction in badly arranged quarters without proper lighting and with distractions by constant disturbances. With the new quarters good light and privacy necessary to efficient work will be features that will help the department.

   Much better facilities for the work in design, ceramics, sculpture and pottery will be provided. Proper kiln facilities will help. The department of Music has been hampered even more seriously, since the attendance has been out of all proportion to the quarters. The new building will relieve this condition through ample sound-proof recitation rooms and suitable office facilities for the teaching force.

   Relief will be given the department of Dramatics with the erection of the new building. It will make available some additional room in the Temple immediately and enable the department to do intensive work which has been omitted solely on account of lack of room. It is the ideal of the department in time to conduct a permanent theater.

   Through the Field House the School of Fine Arts hopes to furnish high grade concerts to the students and community. Not only by securing talent from outside, but by stimulating the local musical activities and utilizing them to the utmost, this will be accomplished. In this connection special attention will be devoted to the larger possibilities of a splendid Chorus under Mrs. Raymond and the development of orchestra music.

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