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This is National Camping and Outing Week. In celebration of the rustic occasion, a fourteen-year old out-door Amazon from Pullman, Washington, last week took her well-chewed pencil and laboriously wrote a letter to Cambridge's foremost agricultural college...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Mixed Miss Confuses College, Camp Club | 5/6/1949 | See Source »

Masson no longer sketches in pencil on the canvas. "It paralyzes the arrival of light," he says. "I now begin with a dark background and lighten it as my painting begins to live and grow like a pancake. Do you see the light in my painting? Is there not a certain freshness...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: More Innocent, More Detached | 3/21/1949 | See Source »

...second Yale game was rough, confusing, and played on the New Haven Arena's pencil-shaped ice surface, but it followed fairly closely the pattern of most recent Crimson games. The team played uncoordinated, indecisive hockey for two periods, then caught fire in the final 20 minutes and turned a close game (it was tied three all at the beginning of the third period) into a rout...

Author: By Donald Carswell, | Title: Six Tops Yale, 8-3, Will Tackle Indians Tonight | 3/14/1949 | See Source »

...hence to talk clearly-a man must not only be conscious of the abstracting process, but he must also know the nature of a fact. He must remember that he never knows all about a "fact": there is always, as the count says, the "etc." Secondly, a fact (pencil x or John Smith) is not the same today as it was yesterday. A, despite Aristotle, is not always A. Therefore, "you must not think 'I am going in to dinner now,' " says the count. "You must think, 'I, February 1949, am going in to dinner.' " Failure...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Always the Etc.? | 2/14/1949 | See Source »

...Pencil Sub One. Finally, one thing is never like another-"not even two Ford cars are alike." It is inadequate to think "pencils." One must think "pencil sub one, pencil sub two, pencil sub three . . ." Failure to "index" leads to false generalizations. "Generalize all you want to," cries the count. "But don't trust...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Always the Etc.? | 2/14/1949 | See Source »

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