Education: Live Models

For the little cluster of Harvardmen (22 this term) banded together in the Harvard Art Association, the drawing possibilities were all pretty dreary: mostly just cubes and cones, bowls of fruit and other still lifes. Why not draw the human figure from nude models, like art students anywhere? They made it a petition and last week the administration said yes. For the first time in Harvard’s 314-year history (provided a faculty member is present to chaperone) undergraduates will draw from live models, draped or undraped.