of this genuinely monumental and epoch-making enterprise. I wish to express my conviction, my most profound conviction, that we are really celebrating here today one of the most significant steps taken in this country for freedom of pictorial or plastic art, for art in education, and also for what is genuine and forward-moving throughout the whole field of education. This institution today, like any institution on a momentous occasion, looks both forward and backward. The Associate Director of Education has already told you something of the immediate past and prospects for the immediate future. I suppose most who come here today, who see these pictures and hear of the use which it is expected will be made of them, have their gaze for the most part turned toward the future. It is very natural that they should think of this as an opening and beginning, an initiation. But after all, we can hardly understand of what it is the opening and....
