GLIMPSES of ART SCHOOL LIFE IN GLASGOW
A STUDENTS are art students everywhere. So that more

than a casual glance is needed to descry any difference

between those of the Glasgow School of Art, and the Van-
couver School of Art. True, a group of the Glasgow students
would contain more of the male element — but you need not turn
green with envy yet, reader, for Glasgow corridors are not enlivened
by kilted or “‘tartaned’’ students. Smocks, however, are called over-
alls and are more splendidly splotched than ours — the futuristic
effects being cherished by the wearers and never destroyed by too
previous laundering. No candy fish delight these students at recess
—but gloat not too soon—for neither are they to be seen munching
only a quiet oat cake or haggis, for they have their own candy store
or ‘‘refectory’’ as it is called, right in the building.
‘And is their attic also crowded with seething hordes of students?”
I hear you ask. It may grieve you to learn that so ample is their
accommodation that there are separate studios allotted to every three
students of the final year.
That Glasgow loves her art students is evinced by the fact that traffic
policemen have to regulate the huge crowds which attend any exhib-
its or entertainments put on by the Glasgow School of Art Students
(Vancouver please note).
Perhaps the fact that the Glasgow School of Art has over eighty
birthdays partly accounts for the ready assimilation of its students
into the industrial and artistic life of the community. For not only
are its graduates absorbed by textile firms, commercial studios, print-
ing and designing businesses and by the teaching staffs of schools all
over Britain, but there is also a field for craft-workers whose little
studios and shops render more colourful the business section of Glas-
gow. Many interesting arts and crafts exhibitions are held each year,
which help to keep high the standard of decorative art in the city.
The large number (twelve hundred from all lands) of its students
makes possible varied student activities in the form of dramatic
clubs, literary societies, etc., while another interesting feature of its
student life is the Old Students’ Club, which meets to sketch (from
models hired by the club) and to renew old friendships and compare
experiences.
These short impressions have been gained at different times in chat-
ting with Miss Melvin, who is on the staff of the Glasgow
School of Art—and as our director, Mr. C. H. Scott, also comes —
from that well-known school, we naturally feel related to, and —
keenly interested in, the activities of the students there.

MARGARET LEWIS.

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