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is $ 15.00 a season of six months, which includes all practice material used by students in class.
Students
and alumni of Pratt Institute have organised The Pratt Art Club, which
its members otherwise quaintly designate as " Ye Brooklyn Club of Ye
Handicrafters "; in its exhibitions, held at the club's rooms near
Pratt Institute, are shown some attractive specimens of the work of
these crafters.
There
is a course in jewelry designing at Cooper Union in New York City under
the direction of Mr. Edward Ehrle. The Cooper Union class meets
tri-weekly, in the evening, for a two hours' session. The work begins
with easy geometrical designs; original work by the pupils is
constantly encouraged. The school year begins the second Monday after
September 15th and ends about May 15th. The full course requires about
three years. At the conclusion of the term in the year 1908, a cash
prize offered by The Jewellers' Circular-Weekly Was awarded to Mr. Frederick E. Bauer for his excellent work.
A
resource of value to the artistic designer of jewelry in and near New
York City is the Cooper Union Museum for the Arts of Decora-
