Word: penciling
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...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...
Altogether "The Mirrors of Grub Street" is a very creditable job. I hope to see The Advocate try it again, with a wider scope, a more serious program-and perhaps a sharper blue-pencil. Meanwhile I am, free to say that to the common or garden sort of outsider, who has been hearing-and sometimes saying himself-that the colleges are not turning out writers of good English, this display affords a most encouraging answer. Indeed, there is apparent in most of this collection a degree of literary finish and sophistication which some weary old hands might envy and emulate...
...either case it has to be done, and done at once. Our familiar habit of leaving everything until the last possible moment in this case is a serious disadvantage. Unless one is certain in advance what courses he expects to take, there is a large amount of pencil-chewing and page-turning to be done; in any case there is an adviser to be consulted--and advisers have an inconsiderate habit of not always being on hand when the advisee may happen to call. Choosing courses for the rest of the year between eleven-fifty and twelve o'clock...
...collection of architectural sketches by Howard Molse '15, M.Arch, '16, will be on exhibition in the Hall of Casts, Robinson Hall, until January 28. They are mostly in pencil, but there are a few other media. They are deliberately experimental in technique and are interesting on that account...
...each other. And after all, the Senate cannot even compete with the tumultuous French Chamber. The Vice-President never has to put on his hat to quell disturbances, nor does the Senate have to adjourn for an hour to quiet down. Debate goes on, and the eraser or blue pencil is used afterward. But might we suggest that the marshals interview Detective Sergeant Tighe...