. Annual report, 1897 . r our own men, so that no expense was in-curred beyond the cost of a portion of the material ($). Aconsiderable portion of material was presented, as noted elsewherein this report. In the Art School, the room which was formerly used by theclass in modelling, was taken for an exhibition-room, and themodelling class was removed to a suite of four rooms in the north-west corner of the building, formerly used by the classes in carv-ing, pen-drawing, and elementary ornament. The installation ofthe modelling class necessitated the cutting of archways throughthe partitio
. Annual report, 1897 . r our own men, so that no expense was in-curred beyond the cost of a portion of the material ($). Aconsiderable portion of material was presented, as noted elsewherein this report. In the Art School, the room which was formerly used by theclass in modelling, was taken for an exhibition-room, and themodelling class was removed to a suite of four rooms in the north-west corner of the building, formerly used by the classes in carv-ing, pen-drawing, and elementary ornament. The installation ofthe modelling class necessitated the cutting of archways throughthe partitions which separated these rooms. The class in carvingand wood-work was removed to the basement, and the class in pen-drawing, which is now an attractive and well-attended class, wasremoved to the third floor of the north wing, where it was in-stalled in the place of the former lunch-room. A somewhat more. One of the Hand-Loom Weave-Rooms, Philadelphia Textile School. compact arrangement of the drawing-classes makes it possible toaccommodate the work in elementary ornament in the mainstudio of the first floor. The exhibition-room makes an attractiveaddition to the front of the building, and makes it possible to dis-play enough of the work to give visitors a fair idea of the groundcovered by the different classes, in the same way that a similarroom in the south wing has long served to show the work of theTextile School. In the Textile School a new floor of maple was laid in the roomoccupied by the cotton machinery, which machinery was re-ar-ranged and received the substantial additions noted in this report. A complete rearrangement of the suite of rooms on the firstfloor, in the southwest corner of the building, made it possible tofit up a very attractive lecture-room for the department of chemis- 26 try and dyeing, and a separate room for experimental work in dye-ing, which has hitherto
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