Word: proofing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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These are serious charges. They are the more serious coming, as they do, from a Senator, speaking in the Senate, rather than from a novelist, whose work may permissibly be a little over-colored. But so far, neither Senator Watson nor John Dos Passos has produced any definite proof. A novel, with fictitious names, means nothing; the same is true of a photograph without other facts, of vague and general telegrams and of "somebody-told-me" evidence. Most of us are from Missouri; give us the date, place, persons involved. Then we will sit up and take notice...
...early to criticise. The proof of a ruling is in its application. This experiment is an attempt to make the senior feel his own responsibility. Perhaps it will solve for Dartmouth the difficult problem of balancing utter freedom with necessary restraint...
...description. "The Stockbridge Elms" by Mr. Rogers is charming, and I take it that the strange punctuation in the reviewer's copy is not Mr. Rogers' but the printer's. (One of the rewards of the reviewer, by the way, is that the Advocate comes to him in uncorrected proof, so that he can enjoy the full shock of reading in Mr. McLane's poem...
...appearance of three University coaches on the 1925 field yesterday was the first proof of the fact that the directors of Crimson football intend to make the liaison between the University and Freshman teams more complete this year than ever before. Other University gridiron specialists are expected to give time next week to Coach Campbell's squad...
...etchings by Whistler are largely from the Thames set etched about 1859, and include very fine impressions of the Black Lion Wharf, the Lime Burners, The Pool and Little Pool. The portrait of Bocquet, "The Fiddler", bears in Whistler's handwriting, the words "Fine proof". There are also several etchings of a later period, showing his later style, from the Venice subjects--as "The Doorway", "Rialto", and "Furnace Nocturne". The "Nocturne Palaces" is one of Whistler's famous Nocturnes and shows the effect which he produces in the wiping of the plate...