The students from the principal ateliers formed into processions, dragging with them their set pieces on chariots, these being their contributions to the decoration of the hall. These chariots were wonderful works of plastic art, though the mythological subjects selected were treated with very little regard for accepted proprieties. A small examining committee of students lined up at the door, to make sure that all who presented themselves for admission were bona fide art students and not merely inquisitive strangers who had obtained tickets by bribery and corruption. Men who showed themselves ignorant of studio jargon were expelled withen ceremony and were lucky if they escaped without having their
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