Vincent d'Indy became president of
the _Schola_, it was decided to move the school into larger premises in
the Rue Saint-Jacques.
The programme of this new school was explained by M. Vincent d'Indy in
his Inauguration speech on 2 November, 1900, and showed how he based the
foundations of musical teaching upon history.
"Art, in its journey across the ages, is a microcosm which has,
like the world itself, successive stages of youth, maturity, and
old age; but it never dies--it renews itself perpetually. It is not
like a perfect circle; it is like a spiral, and in its growth is
always mounting higher. I believe in making students follow the
same path that art itself has followed, so that they shall undergo
during their term of study the same transformations that music
itself has undergone during the centuries. In this way they will
come out much better armed for the difficulties of modern art,
since they will have lived, so to speak, the life of art, and
followed the natural and inevitable order of the forms that made up
the different epochs of artistic development."
[Footnote 229: When Charles Bordes opened the first _Schola Cantorum_ in
the Rue Stanislas he was without help or resources, and had exactly
thirty-seven francs and fifty centimes in hand.
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