Townsend Harris High School - Crimson Gold Yearbook (Flushing, NY)

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All 'llllfi .. .t ...t t t t a t .. A i six T s. , I-ll? HARRIS ART SQCIETY has become a permanent society in the.School, For a few terms it labored along 1 under many difhculties, but then suddenly pushed its head L above water and determines to keep it there. During the last year it has attained brilliant success, for success under such hardships as the Harris Art Society labored, is well termed phe- noinenal. The hardship lay mostly in the fact that there were very few students of any artistic talent in Townsend Harris who cared to spend an afternoon at a club-meeting learning to draw well. For the first terms the attendance was very small but has now reached quite a number. Mr. Hutchison was the first faculty advisor, and then later Mr. Katz, of the College. It was at the latter's helpful suggestion that the members of the Society began to sketch from life models. These life models were arrayed in American costumes, and for the sake of Variety, sketches were made of the costumes of European and Asiatic peoples. Another excellent idea conceived by the members was to refer all business of the club to a committee. This was a means of saving time and unnecessary arguments which the club would have had under normal arrangements. The committee makes a report at every meet- ing upon which the club votes. For the student desirous of improving his knowledge of drawing there are a great many opportunities to be found in the Harris Art Society. The club's prosperity has been marked and each year will see it grow stronger and firmer as a Society of Townsend Harris Hall.

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OMKUTS SCHNEIDER, Presidezzt SCHWEFEL, Vice-Prvsident BERGSON, Sefrefary NERENSTONE, Treasurer