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for his seriousness and sincerity, St. Gaudens interests himself in you so, and helps you so conscientiously, you feel that you are obliged to do something, to merit the care he gives. To my mind it is the highest standard for criticism. Again he is completely confounded, perplexed, over a bad piece of work, and that stings you beyond anything; this would especially occur in the Composition Class - we made some miserable failures especially I! But I can never forget that he put me in his Life Class on my first antique. "You are strong in construction", he would say, "But you do not model well, this is not nervous enough, make it live! I cannot seem to remember you have studied such a short time" over and over again Mr. Voth is so easy, so conscientious, even-tempered and slow. You surely wouldn't go to sleep while he was