IN GRADUATE work a science department teaches science and produces scientists; a philosophy department teaches philosophy and produces philosophers; but does a fine-arts department teach art and produce artists?' The fine arts have been receiving more and more emphasis in the universities during the past ten years; but whether or not the arts are profiting by this patronage may well be questioned. Some administrators and faculties take the attitude that the fine arts are in the university by sufferance only; their very nature is such that their standard must be inferior to, or at least different from, that of the sciences. This assumption is open to question. Recent discussion on advanced degrees has shown that two purposes are generally recognized throughout the graduate school: to train teachers of advanced work and to develop research. In training its advanced teachers, a science invariably requires that the candidate have sufficient laboratory experience to be able to carry out most of the standard demonstrations on which the science rests. He may, or he may not, have