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...eyesight trying to decipher diagrams in Harvard 6. I lose thirty minutes in copying hundreds of figures on paper in my accounting class that meets in upper Massachusetts. I fall to get assignments and notices because at times it is impos- sible to distinguish between the board and the chalk. On occasions I have seen instructors give up illustrating on the board, realizing the futility of their attempts to make the chalk write. Does such a state of affairs deserve comment? J. VINCENT SPADEA '23 March...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Communication | 4/1/1922 | See Source »

...shooting and the absolute inability to follow up shots under the basket kept the visitors from rolling up a lead at the start, for on the first few plays they had possession of the ball and made countless attempts to cage baskets. The striped-jerseyed men, however, did chalk up the first points but Captain McLeish put his team in the lead by a point from the foul line and a basket, which he shot after receiving a pass from back court. From then until Gordon's final basket which fell as the whistle blew, the University stayed...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SUPERIOR PLAYING WINS FOR CRIMSON | 1/26/1922 | See Source »

...show the progress of the team, play by play, and the other to give the names of the players, substitutions, and other facts of interest. As fast as dispatches are received, the plays will be announced through a megaphone, while they are graphically portrayed on the blackboard. Blue chalk will be used for Yale plays, and red for the University, with the customary curved, dotted and broken lines to show kicks, line plunges, forward passes, etc. These will be drawn on a chart of the field. The man featuring in each play will be announced through the megaphone...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: RETURNS OF GAME AT UNION | 11/20/1920 | See Source »

...countries. These include a Russian Ballet by a student of Simmons College, a Japanese number by S. Muromats 2G.B., Hawaiian music by Miss Alice Wong of Boston University, piano selections by J. M. Sanroma of the New England Conservatory of Music, a Spanish dance by S. C. Montaegudo, a chalk talk, a Chinese Sword Dance, a Mexican serenade by S. S. Villa 3M., and Chinese musical numbers by George Wan 1G., interspersed with numbers by an international orchestra...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PLAN "INTERNATIONAL NIGHT" | 4/16/1919 | See Source »

...exceptional opportunity to students and to the public to visit many loan collections of distinction. It may be fairly said, however, that none have been of such unique and far-reaching interest as this, for there are rare, convincing and well authenticated drawings in bistre, wash, silver point, or chalk...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: RARE WORKS LOANED TO FOGG | 4/3/1916 | See Source »

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