Word: colors
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...annual exhibition of the Pen and Brush Club will be held in the Union from May 21 to June 1. Medals will be awarded for the best work in water color, oil color, black and white (pen, pencil, and charcoal drawing), decorative design and architectural design...
...fiction in this number of the Advocate, Mr. Frederick Moore's sketch "Adam and Eva, deserves first mention. It is a study of local color and character so truthful in substance and treatment that one is uncertain whether it is rightly classed under the head of fiction. The material is of the slightest; on a hot summer night a student involuntarily in Cambridge, amuses himself on the steps of his dormitory by engaging in conversation three little street waifs that chance by. The atmosphere is admirably reproduced by a few telling lines and the children are treated with something...
...admirable stage management and lighting of the play is the work of S. Baird '03, who has coached the production. "The chorus sings with vigor and accuracy, and the dances are a blaze of gorgeous color. The six Spanish dancers who appear in the second act, make as handsome a group as has been seen on the Pudding stage in recent years. They are agile and spirited and go about their work with confidence; and it is difficult to watch the performance without forgetting that it is a piece of make-believe. Taken as a whole, "The Lotos-Eaters...
...engineer and contractor. Under his direction were constructed the government sea wall around Governor's Island, a sea wall at Tompkinsville, S. I.; the Race Rock lighthouse off New London, and the foundation for the statue of Liberty, in the New York harbor. He has done much landscape water color painting, charcoal work and pen and ink illustrating, and has lectured extensively...
...stories, "Little Brother" is undoubtedly the best. Its characters are Harvard men who do not "merely sleep in Cambridge," as a recent reviewer has remarked of most undergraduate heroes of fiction; it has atmosphere and color, and a sufficient plot; and in its fundamental idea that straightforward honesty is the surest means of success it emphasizes one of the most cherished of Harvard ideals. The other two stories are well written, but neither is strikingly original. The greybearded spinner of the impossible story of "Dead Man's Pine" is vividly and convincingly drawn, and the inconsistencies of his yarn...