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...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...
...former years, it is still the object of the editors of the Harvard Lampoon to try with trenchant pencil and sarcastic pen to hit off the foibles of our "little world" and to open a field where the last jest at the club table and the latest freak of undergraduate life may find a fitting place...
...University in the Fogg Art Museum. Turner stands in the front rank among modern painters, and has won special fame because of his work in landscape effects. The collection in Fogg is extensive and varied, consisting of three large and five smaller oil paintings, over thirty watercolors, and seventeen pencil sketches. Since many of these works have been loaned for a limited period, all should take advantage of the opportunity to view an exceptional exhibition...