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...Campbell will illustrate his talk with numerous exhibits of pencil work, and will also give an exhibition of rapid sketch work...
...disagreement among psychologists," the speaker stated, "the general opinion is that intelligence is the ability of the individual to adjust himself to new situations. Our present tests stress too much language ability and specific knowledge, and give a large advantage to those accustomed to the use of paper and pencil. We have not yet any means of measuring morals, will, conscientiousness, carefulness, confidence, and other such valuable characteristics. Too much should not be expected of the tests at the present time. It is in fact a wonder that so much has been accomplished in so short a time. Progress...
...Campbell's subject will be "Illustrative and Commercial Art and its Use in Advertising", and he will bring numerous exhibits of pencil work to illustrate his subject as well as give an exhibition of rapid sketch work...
...picture shows in the simplest manner that things are not always what they seem. What is apparently a sharply bent line may be actually a lead pencil resting in a glass of water, the refraction occurring at the surface of the water where the pencil emerges into a less dense medium, causing it to appear bent. A spot that appears to be white upon a black background is actually gray when seen on a white background. A projectile shot vertically upward from the earth really follows a curved course in space, due to the sidewise motion imparted...
...looks of the undergraduates, by the pensive droop of their heads, by their strife to be polite to visitors despite the calamity, by the dim lights of the club, by the English tea, by the yearning of the club members fingers toward the breast pocket where the pencil lay, I realized that a great blow had been struck that day for the furtherance of Yale letters...