Word: familiarity
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Featuring the 1937 book is an etching frontispiece, executed in drypoint by Charles Blessing of Boston. Another highspot in art-work is the Album's departure from the usual reprinting of familiar college scenes. Replacing these is a series of lithographs from unusual pencil sketches of the Houses--the WORK of the Russian artist, Constantin A. Pertzoff...
...last half century. Only the older graduates remember Professor Hill, the associate of Charles Eliot Norton, Nathaniel Shailer and their contemporaries. Dean Briggs, who died only three years ago, was known to--and loved by--the undergraduates of the last sixty years. Even in retirement his ambling figure was familiar in the yard, and his bashful smile and warm heart won instantaneous response. To study composition in his English 5 was the ambition of nearly all undergraduates who looked forward to writing as a career, and many an author and journalist of America today is proud to be listed among...
...Senate for introducing bills for the exclusive benefit of his own county, San Diego's Senator Ed Fletcher was the butt of a legislative joke last week in Sacramento. To the Senate reading clerk went a bill which Senator Fletcher's colleagues had drawn up in the familiar Fletcher style. Droned the clerk in his most serious monotone: "The sum of $6,635,000.03 is hereby appropriated from the unappropriated moneys of the general fund of this State for the purpose of dredging Pee-Wee River in the county of San Diego, which river flows 2¼ inches...
...more than 2,000 pictures submitted, the jury picked 461 pictures by 405 artists, from 28 States, distributed $5,000 in medals and prizes. Most of the best-known younger artists in the U. S. were represented. First prize ($2,000) went to Edward Hopper for one of his familiar old houses, painted in the sharp yellow light of a Cape Cod afternoon. Second prize ($1,500) and a silver medal went to Painter-Critic Guy Pène du Bois for a solidly painted young girl, stiffly upright in a chair. Pennsylvania Academy Instructor Francis Speight took the third...
Knapp's room mate, William S. Baxter '37 returned to his room in Leverett House at 3:45 o'clock yesterday morning and opened the door to be met by heavy black smoke. He immediately turned in an alarm, resulting in the arrival of Cambridge's familiar ladder truck and two fire engines. The "smoke eaters" promptly threw an upholstered chair which had been ignited by a cigarette out the window...