Ohio Wesleyan University - Le Bijou Yearbook (Delaware, OH)

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School of Music The School oi' Music is now enjoying the greatest growth in its history and for the past year has had the largest enrollment of talented students. Music is fast being recognized as an essential in the education of all and the School, with its close relationship to the University, offers many splendid opportuflities to the student in the literary as well as music department. Eminent instructors are provided in all departments and thorough courses are given in vocal. instrumental and theoretical music, and the greatest attention is given to the especial needs of each individual, the course of study being selected according to the requirements of the student. Sanborn llall, the new home of the School of Music, is a memorial given by Mrs. Anna Clason, in honor of her mother and brother, and is designated to perpetuate the best interests of musical art. The llall is noted in the city as one of the finest college build- ings. lt is constructed on the most approved plans and is a model in its appointments, provided with sound-proof studios and practice rooms and one of the finest auditoriums in the country, elaborate in decorations and furnishings and is especially adapted to chamber concerts. The seating capacity is about six hundred. All recitals of students and artists are given in this alulitorium. ZH

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n I JJ ea Tliere are art schools much more widely known, and there are art sl-hools more widely attencled, hut it a question whether there are alt schools that can give their students any more happiness in their work than they get right here at Ohio NVes1eyan. Art Hall or Lyon Ilall, as it is now 1,-allecl, is so picturesque in its very location that latent artistie ability cannot help but lnifohl under the inliuences of such surroundings. Attracted by the ex- terior, one is not clisappointecl hy the interior of Lyon Ilall, for, with the quaint nooks and eorners, the winding' stair and tower besides the more eonnnonplace features, it furnishes a suitable environment for the study of the things of art. But more important than all else is the work itself, for, ill spite of the contrary opinion helcl hy the average eollegian, the art stu- dent does put in many hours of hard work. At the same time the student of art is acquiring the technique of the various arts, he gains an increased power of appreciation of beauty in art and na- ture, and, in such degree as it lies in him, an ahility to reprocluee such ln-auty satisfactorily. 31