Word: pencil
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Arts announces the following prizes to be awarded for drawing and painting: A prize of $50 for the best original painting in oil or water color painted by an undergraduate in any of the Fine Art courses during the year; a prize of $25 for the best drawing in pencil, pen, or wash, done directly from nature of an architectural, landscape, or figure subject by an undergraduate in any of the Fine Art courses during the year. Neither prize is to be awarded to the same student in any one year, and no student will be given the prize more...
...prize of twenty-five dollars for the best drawing in pencil, pen, or wash, made directly from nature, of architectural, landscape, or figure subject, by an undergraduate in any of the courses in Fine Arts during the year...
...example, not one man in ten ever does anything in a spare hour between two classes. He sits down at his desk and sharpens a pencil, breaks it and tries again. Then he picks up a newspaper--often last week's--and reads a headline here, an advertisement there, and deciphers the cartoons with wrapt attention and solemn mien. Next, he opens a magazine lying at hand and reads half a story. Wearying of that, he curses in a bored sort of way and turns back to the pencil which he has again broken while tracing designs on his blotter...
...pencil drawings of Ypres by the early English master, Samuel Prout (1783-1852) have recently been placed on exhibition. Both drawings were made from the Grande Place, and represent the Hotel de Ville. In one of them the square tower of the famous Cloth Hall appears in the background, and the other one shows two corner turrets and a bit of the Cathedral of St. Martin. These buildings are particularly interesting in the eyes of the world now, because they are said to have been destroyed in the last few weeks by artillery fire...
...will be changed to a less acrid fluid tonight; the busy blue pencil will pause in its course; the snicking shear will, for the nonce, be silent, when, to celebrate its forty-first year of existence as a college newspaper, the CRIMSON will give a dinner in the Union...