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The Palace of Art.

III': Fall of <Ji .vas an epoch in the history of the Institution, for the present Junior Class
entered at that time
Though the College had been famed for its well e<juipped laboratories, complete
mu~eutn, extensi,·e library, t}je art gallery had in some way been neglected. \\'ell, for the
College that 'y; contributed so much in artistic equipment! \Ve feel that friends of the
Institution ha,·e been ignorant the pa~t three years of the de,·elopment of the F.A C. in
~e~thetics. \\'e have known and studied each of the pictures in detail: we are blessed with
a rare collection indeed, a Palace of Art,-
" Full of gn:at rooms and "mall the palace stood,
All various, each a perfect whole,
From li\'ing nature, fit for e\·ery mood
And change of my still soul."
The pre~ent pictures are kept for their real merit, fllr, from time to time the collection
has been "examined ' and only master-pieces ha,·e been retained --truly this is " the survi,·al of the
fittest. '
(Jf the original number, hn~nt~· ha\·e been omitted, and in place of them ten new pictures ha,·e been added.
The sixteen tlut rentain ha,·e almos~ all been retouched and altered, so that \'ery few stand to-day in the same
shape which they had at the beginning. E\'(!11 some of our most Yaluahle treasures, worthy of \fillet or Don~.
ha,·c been some\\ hat scarred and scratched by more or less rough treatment at the hands of the Faculty, though
the~- .1re ~till worthy specintens of a ,-aluahle collection.