Word: pencils
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...safety. On exactly the same principle the honest student values the protection which the proctor's presence affords. It gives a significance to his grades and to his diploma which they would otherwise lack. It protects him from unjust suspicion in making inquiry about the time, borrowing a pencil, or in making other proper communications. The honor system may work better than inefficient proctoring as a discourager of cribbing; but if it is to be compared with efficient proctoring it cannot supply the element of guaranty, unless it involves the systematic spying of students upon each other and the subsequent...
...John Ruskin is being held in the Upper Gallery of the Fogg Art Museum, in memory of Charles Eliot Norton '46. The collection illustrates the intimate friendship of Ruskin and Norton, which extended over a period of more than forty years. The various specimens show Ruskin's workmanship in pencil, wash, and water color, and the exhibit includes some of his remarkable architectural drawings, hasty sketches of landscape, and careful and detailed studies from nature...