the work to follow.

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A most important feature in recent educational work as applied to
architecture is to be found in the formation of a number of classes,
or _ateliers_ as they are called, modelled in the main after those in
Paris. They are all formed with the purpose of furnishing instruction
in those elements of academic design which are unattainable in the
routine experience of office practice. The details of arrangement for
accomplishing this purpose vary somewhat in the different _ateliers_.
We believe the first to be started was the one connected with the
office of Messrs. Carrère & Hastings in New York. Here a limited
number of students, both young men and young women, are received, and
as a return for the instruction given them are expected to render such
assistance in the regular work of the draughting-room as they can.
This service is exactly similar to the "niggering," as it is called,
required by long-established custom of the younger men at the Ecole
des Beaux-Arts at Paris, which is one of the most valuable features of
the school work. In Paris by this method the younger students have an
opportunity to come in personal and intimate contact with those more
advanced, and have the benefit of working on larger and more important
work than they are capable of undertaking unaided. In the new
_atelier_ a problem in design is given to the class, thus more than
ordinarily equipped for the work before him.


[Illustration:
VII. Portion of the Façade of the Ca D'oro, Venice.]