“I leave for the present to Mr. Macdonald's experience and judgment the direction of the junior students in the Ruskin schools, and have arranged the following scheme of work for students of either sex entering our classes from the age of sixteen and upwards,—adapting the exercises enforced especially to the conditions of University life, but yet arranging them with the collateral view of their probable introduction in schools where more consistent attention to the subject of Art could be given than is possible in connection with the courses of reading at present necessary to distinction in Oxford. The pass certificates, however, will ultimately be given only to students who have attained such a degree of skill as must imply their having attended in the school with steadiness during the whole period of their residence in the University, giving at least a couple of hours in each week out of their best and untired time, and supplementing the work done in residence by some consistent practice during vacations.

“In the first year the student will be required to attain steadiness and accuracy in the outline of simple forms, and ease in the ordinary processes of pure water-colour painting; that is to say, he must learn to lay smooth tints within spaces of complex shape without transgressing their limits, and over spaces of large extent with equality and smoothness.