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afternoons drawing from the cast. The method was shading by careful cross hatching in crayon after the manner of the early Julian lithographs. Mr Diehl wisely kept us on hands and feet and heads and I have always felt that no better method of instruction exists for a young art student than this drawing carefully fragments of the human figure from cast both from the Antique and Life. Fred Church whose hours at the school were limited to those he could spare from the Express office, found the charcoal and crayon rather slow and frequently would make his drawing with the blue pencil he always carried in his vest pocket to check express packages with. The class rooms were on the upper floor of the Crosby Opera House on Washington Street. Here were the studios