Word: sketch
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...crowding through the doorways. But the picture does not compose as a whole: the blacks and the whites are badly massed; as a total composition it is not pleasing. Moreover the drawing does no more than illustrate the text; it does not of itself add to the humor. The sketch on the opening page is appropriately "impressionistic." Perhaps the cleverest bit of drawing in the number is the illustration at the top of page 53, a joke made new by interpretation. These figures are alive; here are expressed energy, character, action, and humor. In a small space the draughtsman...
...editorial article in two efforts is less happy than usual; it is neither serious nor funny. The "Freshman Reception" does not quite come off. Successful caricature should result in characterization; it should remain essentially true, for its exaggeration is only for the sake of emphasis. But the sketch, though only a farce, is nevertheless amusing. In the present number the Freshmen have overshadowed the Faculty. The lines entitled, "Thou Victim of Insomnia," are more clever than kindly...
Tomorrow night the Pen and Brush Club will hold its last sketch competition of the year, open only to members of the club...
...good many Seniors seem to be in doubt as to just what is wanted in the sketch to be written in the pages at the end of the "class life," I should like to explain the purpose of this sketch and try to suggest what it should...
...answers to the questions in the first part of the "lives" form the material for statistics in the class report. The sketch to be written at the end forms no part of the report and is purely optional. The "lives" are kept on file in the College Library, and it is consequently desirable that each man should write a short personal account of himself, that in after years people interested in him may find out his college impressions and his estimate of the significant events of his life and of the influence of those events and surroundings on his character...