Quarterly Bulletin The interview took place in Thomas Noble's studio. They discussed the situation. Mr. Anderson suddenly asked, "Now what good would the study of art be to a farm boy?" Mr. Noble answered, "It would help him to dig a better ditch and plough a straighter furrow." That settled the matter. Larz Anderson knew they had made a proper choice and was enthusiastic over their good fortune in acquiring such a man to head the new school. The art department of McMicken University opened in i86g with thirteen pupils, in an old house in the downtown section of Cincinnati. Thomas S. Noble became professor of art and first principal of the School of Design. It was quite in character that he accepted gracefully, but did not take the trouble to attend any induction or commencement ceremonies in official capacity. Ceremonies and processions, apart from picturesque spectacles which he could paint, had no interest for him. In 1884, when the original quarters were most uncomfortably outgrown, Mr. Joseph Longworth's endowment enabled them to build quarters in Eden Park, and at that time the School of Design was transferred to the Cincinnati Museum Association, under the name of the Art Academy of Cincinnati. Thomas S. Noble, besides retaining his title as professor, continued as principal of the art school. His success as a teacher drew to the school a large enrollment from all parts of the country, and it held a high position among the art schools of America. Among his pupils were John Ward Dunsmore (who was, besides, a dearly-loved friend), Gutzon and Solon Borglum, Kenyon Cox, Charles Winter, Bruce Horsfall, Bryson Burroughs, Elizabeth Nourse, Clement Barn- horn, Charles Niehaus, Caroline Lord, Ernest Blumenschein, Joseph Henry Sharp, L. H. Meakin, Joseph DeCamp, John Wareham, Robert Blum, Charles Svendsen, Mrs. Willie B. Newman, and many others. Many of his pupils found him more than a teacher. More — iig —