Collecting paintings and prints of all sorts has always been a foremost hobby of educated people. At present there is only one course, Fine Arts 19a, which deals with the methods and possibilities of sung an interest; and that course, primarily for graduates, is called Museum work and Museum Problems. This is another sign that the Department thinks of itself as the procreator of "curators and teachers of the arts," whereas nine tenths of the students are taking their courses for cultural reasons alone.

Perhaps the Department thinks of collecting as the hobby of millionaires, who travel through Europe every summer picking up Botticellis and Anthony Van Dycks. In that case, some course should deal with the value of reproductions and prints of all sorts. At present the one move in acquainting undergraduates with art for collecting, of for the home, is the loan of etchings by the Fogg Art Museum for students rooms. The number of men who responded to the offer should convince the department that interest in objects d'art really exists, and is worth cultivating.

A group of courses on the problems of collection, in the connection of the arts to the present day, and some attempt to introduce students to the appreciation of art for its own sake (and not for its position in the development of culture alone), would make a start toward spreading interest in the subject, and ensuring that really cultured people were graduating from the college.

Fine Arts la makes a start in the direction of teaching true appreciation. No if other courses could bring this appreciation down to earth, so that it meant something in the surroundings of graduates not in museums only, but in their homes and clubs and offices as well, the expensive Museum and Department would justify themselves completely. Collecting as a natural and desirable path through which to lead students to this kind of interest and appreciation.