Word: sittings
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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EDITORS DAILY CRIMSON.- The opinion is every day growing stronger that the senior class made a mistake in choosing Mr. Notman as class photographer. The work is not nearly as good as the samples shown to the committee. The sittings for this album were given very hurriedly, and the proofs were in most cases wholly unsatisfactory. The operator allowed us to sit in any position we happened to drop into, only urging us to "look as pleasant as possible." Two or three proofs were taken in as many seconds, and we were dismissed with the assurance that "these will...
...notoriously disagreeable. Complaints will always arise as it is impossible to satisfy everybody, and of course all the blame is laid upon the committee, or upon the photographer. No blame is ever for a moment placed upon the man who neglects time and time again to arrange a sitting, and then finally goes in the last few days when there is always a rush for such as he, and complains because there is not time for him to sit again. The understanding with the photographer was that every member of the class could sit until his negative was entirely satisfactory...
...building, and the audience were photographed. Storrow, '87, had his camera in the south west end of the gallery, and Mr. Tupper, Pach's operator, had his in the north west corner. The audience hardly realized that an effort was being made to photograph them, and did not sit very still, so the worth of the result is rather doubtful. Mr. Tupper took two and Mr. Storrow one picture...
...covered with velvet carpet of an ancient pattern, the figures of which, where not worn off entirely, seem to be made up of a conglomeration of enormous roses and tree trunks. To look at this aged sofa, you would say that it could not possibly be comfortable to sit, to lie or to take any posture upon whatever. Its perpendicular back and straight arms certainly give it a most uninviting appearance. Perhaps this is the reason it has not been worn out entirely long ere this...
After a few weeks had gone by, he begins to write "Sultanish letters," as he terms them, to Miss Blair, and finally he determines to visit her. While there he informs us: "I am dressed in green and gold. I have my chaise, in which I sit alone like Mr. Gray, and Thomas rides by me in a claret-colored suit with a silver-laced hat. If she can still remain indifferent. she is not the woman I thought...