Excerpt from Commencement Exercises: Academy of Music, Thursday Evening, June Two, Nineteen Hundred and Four Presented at the Close of the Twenty-seventh School Year, June 2, J. During the past year the school has been attended by 1029 pupils, of whom 683 were men and 346 women. The following changes and additions have been made in the teach ing staff: in the Art School, Mr. Albert Jean Adolphe has taken charge of the evening class in Interior Decoration, Mr. Leon Volkmar has been engaged to conduct the class in Pottery, and Mr. Carl G. Nacke, that in Metal Work. In the class in Architectural Drawing, Mr. C. Wharton Churchman takes the place of Mr. J. Edgar Hill, whose professional work compelled him to relinquish his work here. In the Textile School, Mr. J. Harry Shinn has taken charge of the work of Cotton Carding and Spinning, in place of Mr. William E. Winchester, who resigned at the close of last year, and Mr. Robert J. Carson suc ceeded Mr. Edward J. Roberts in the Designing Department, evening class. In the language classes, Mme. A. M. Schmidt-grillon has taken the place of Miss Emma Schmidt as Instructor in German. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.