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school
of crafts, with the predicted result that there would be immediate
improvement in our wares, furniture, textiles, interior decorations,
and ornaments of every kind, and that, instead of the host of
unsuccessful artists of to-day, there would be successful master
craftsmen, putting life and beauty into our liberal arts, invaluable
citizens, and, incidentally, that these graduates of the schools of
crafts would be economically independent and contented. Mr. Borglum
points out that the Metropolitan Museum of Art with its collections
would form a nucleus and a foundation for this useful innovation.
