Word: pencil
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...CRIMSON can look forward to the threatening censorship of the daily press with considerable equanimity. While the slash of blue pencil and daub of India ink will make the pages of the Boston newspapers unreadable, the CRIMSON will still be able to print the news so that it will be clear and unmistakable to the undergraduate. Words with such deep military significance as "Crimson," "grades" and "deturs" will, of course, have to be omitted. Announcements in the courses on perspective, gas analysis, theory of design, class Martial, the canon (and fugue) and Bacon will no longer appear in the notice...
...watchful guiding hand, under which his own theories might lose their identity. He is trying to work out college problems and solve them to the best of his ability. Naturally he resents interference, as he wants his paper to represent his own thoughts, unslashed by the blue pencil of a professional censor...
Today the first mid-year is staged. The scene has been painted, the time set, the prompters are prompt. The angelic orchestra, under the disguise of a Faculty, has strummed up the blue pencil instruments. The programs, officially printed on yellow, have been numbered and are waiting. All is ready. Where are the actors? Only the actors are missing. They have forgotten their lines. Or perhaps they never learned them...
...revealed the presence of strong feeling and overwrought nerves--a sort of bursting charge that needed only a slight detonation to set it off. The situation is very much as though two men should come to harsh blows because one had accidentally broken the point of the other's pencil. In both cases a mere trifle would have resulted in important developments; the immediate cause could not possibly justify or explain the resultant action...
...prize of twenty-five dollars, for the best drawing made directly from nature by an undergraduate in any of the courses in Fine Arts during the year, to Charles Allerton Coolidge, Jr., '17, of Boston, for a drawing in pencil of Persis Smith Hall...