Word: sketch
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Opening with a greeting from George H. Chase '96, Dean of the University, the pamphlet offers a short course in the history of Harvard and its buildings, follows with a list of services, a guide-book section with a map, and ends in a thumbnail sketch of the various military groups contained in the University...
...Pictures in advertisements must conform to specified sizes: in newspapers and magazines a photograph or sketch of a dress, for example, cannot take up more than six square inches. A picture of a box of tea is permitted, but not a picture of a group of women enjoying tea. In mailorder catalogues either a front or back view of a coat may be pictured, but not both; only one shoe can be shown, not a pair. Only when it is necessary (such as in a suit or hat advertisement) can a picture of a human figure be used...
Finally rousing himself resolutely, he decided that this lost soul must be educated, and brought into the fold. He strode to the book-case and pulled down his copy of Jack Frost's "Harvard and Cambridge Sketch Book." After a few moments spent thumbing through the pages, he located the one he sought...
...Rudy Vallee his first chance to do something besides croon, and he does it in a surprisingly winning way. As a pince-nezed, third-generation Rockefeller (screen name: John D. Hackensacker III) who pursues slinky Claudette Colbert like an expectant collector after a particularly fine butterfly, Rudy is a sketch...
...plethora of attempts for significant subject matter. David Hessey's "Young People" is typical of much that is best in the issue. A straightforward account of a child's reaction to death, this story's modest omission of psychiatric analyses only adds force to a peculiarly penetrating and satisfactory sketch...