THE DRAWING SCHOOL:--It gives me great pleasure to announce that the classes have been larger this season than for many years, and that the attendance has kept up to the end better than ever before. This is not only complimentary to the school, but also shows that the students are here for business, and that they come here because they know that the time will be profitably employed and the results will be practical and useful to them in their various careers.
The industrial interests of the country are becoming so immense and the requirements in the way of knowledge and technic so great, that it behooves the young men of the land to take advantage of every opportunity to learn everything bearing upon, or of use in, their various trades and professions.
They will find that mechanical drawing is the very best study to start with. It trains their imaginations to conceive the location and relation of points, lines and surfaces, the combination of these into simple solids, and so on up to complicated forms and their movements. It awakens a desire to understand the geometry of the forms and the kinematics of the movements, and thus leads up to the mathematics of the subject.
The work is interesting and gratifying, and no one who follows it up with ordinary application can fail to be greatly improved and to have his prospects and position bettered by it. That these facts are becoming better known and understood, the growth of the school and the work of the students amply testify.