Catalogue of Howard Payne College, 1897-1898 Page: 52
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Howard Payne College.
ART DEPARTMENT.
Mrs. T. F. Nanny.
D)r:wing is the short-hand language of modern science. Careful
(iraxwilngs are to technically educated people what pictures are to
children. They show at a glance what it is not in the power of
words to express. It is a universal language, and should be read
l)v all nmen.
Drawing has another use of equal value. It is the most important
means for developing the perceptive 'faculties, teaching the
student to see correctly and to understand what he sees. Drawing,
if well taught, is the constant practice of analysis of lorms, and b)y
this practice the eye is quickened and rendered incomparably more
accurate; and, as the eye is the most open and ready road through
which knowledge passes to the mind, the full development of
its powers can be a matter of no small importance to all. In this
respect then, as an educator of the eye, drawing is a most valuable
means irrespective of any science that the power may be of itself.
There is another faculty engaged in this study-that one which
distinguishes man from the cleverest of aninials-the hand. The
hand is employed and it is also educated and trained to be more
completely under control of the will than by any other exercise. It
acquires a delicacy of movement and a refinement of power which
no other discipline can impart, and which fits it more completely
to perform its varied and delicate functions. So it is that practical
art has one distinct advantage over purely intellectual pursuits,
which is, that it does not educate the mind only, but also the eye
and the hand.
Some people, but not the wisest, are as proud of having idle and
useless hands as the Chinese ladies are of their useless feet. With
these, all reasoning would be a waste of time; but there are others
who have no such prejudice. The eye which is trained by drawing
discerns from everywhere and in everything; the hand which is
skilled to use pencil or brush will be generally superior in delicacy
and accuracy of touch to the hand which has never been
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Howard Payne College (Brownwood, Tex.). Catalogue of Howard Payne College, 1897-1898, book, 1897; Brownwood, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth46440/m1/58/: accessed April 24, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Howard Payne University Library.