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...Saturday Evening Post of October 11. Along with much that is complimentary both of the University and the student body, the subtle charge of "cleverness" carries a distinctly derogatory implication. Instead of higher learning Harvard is accused of producing "hot house results", of developing "point-of-pencil knowledge", and high technique in the art of passing examinations. The Old Dog says of the unfinished product: "Most of these fellows were ready with opinions on any conceivable subject. If they had none, they were able to make them up on the spot...
...reflected the life and thought of primitive races. There were queer barbaric ornaments; shining, murderous weapons; primitive carvings. Also, he saw strange sights, saw battle and death, saw human beings stripped to aboriginal essentials of life and passion. For his own amusement, he liked to take a stub of pencil and stray sheet of paper and sketch roughly the things that interested...
...Vienna?of American parentage, to be sure. However, any Viennese tendencies he may have had were safely obliterated by college training at the College of the City of New York, from which he was graduated in 1891. He then turned to editorial work and used the famous blue pencil in such offices as those of The Woman's Home Companion and The Literary Digest. With such editorial apprenticeship, he was able to become a poetic journalist with great facility and success, without losing any of his pristine talents. His rhymed reviews in Life have charmed for years...
When the men working on Massachusetts Hall tore the outer boards off the framework of the door on the north side, a small pencil sketch of a gentleman dressed in colonial clothes was seen among the other ancient scrawls. Above the drawing was the inscription. "Bedamn, Ben", Archacologists of the University are puzzled regarding the exact meaning of "Bedamn", but as the picture portrays a somewhat portly gentleman, they deduce that "Ben" probably refers to Benjamin Franklin, and that the drawing was a tribute to him by one of his more ardent admirers...
...sits upon the living one, gazes mildly down. Sporting scenes, because they contain balanced movement, a living impulse of clean speed, have always attracted artists. Degas, for instance, cultivated the paddock almost as assiduously as he did the salle de ballet. He is represented in this exhibit by a pencil study of a horse. There is Middleton Manigault's modernistic painting of an International match; a series of Robert W. Chanler's decorations on Polo Through the Ages; George Wright's Grooming Polo Ponies; two water colors by Ivester Lloyd of a game in full tilt; spirited...