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Excerpt from Universities and Art-Teaching: A Lecture Delivered at Armstrong College, Newcastle-Upon-Tyne on Tuesday April 25, 1911
The prime worker in the original School, Mr. W. B. Scott, I knew well, an accomplished artist, an eager pro moter of all the elegances and refining in?uences of the Arts in their several branches. A man of strong Opinions formed in a great school of poetic and decorative work headed by the names of Ruskin, Rossetti, and William Morris, the pioneers of a nobler view of the national importance of Art training not only to be applied to technicalities, but principles from which the amateur and connoisseur might obtain guidance at a time when good taste was at its lowest ebb in England.
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