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282 A Book of Precious Stones
ated a wide interest in the movement and are much encouraged to carry it along.
From
many sources students are now receiving aid, encouragement, and
information which but a few years ago was unheard of in America. A case
in point is the offering annually by Herpers Bros., a business concern
extensively engaged in the manufacture of parts of commercial jewelry,
in New York City and Newark, N. J., of gold medals to the most
proficient students in five leading technical schools in the United
States.
At
the suggestion of Hon. Oscar Straus, Secretary of the Department of
Commerce and Labour, it is said: Prof. John Monaghan, for a long time a
representative of the United States Government, in the consular
service, has delivered series of lectures for jewellers' associations
and at technical institutions which have jewelry classes or courses.
While consul at Chemnitz, Germany, Prof. Monaghan devoted much time to
a study of the technical schools of the German Empire.
In the opinion of Mr. Gutzon Borglum, as lately expressed in The Craftsman, the art school of to-day will pass and be supplanted by the
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