Word: coloring
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...found that 11.3 per cent. of the Freshmen and 10.2 per cent. of the Unclassified students could not swim; 1.3 per cent. of the Freshmen and 2.6 per cent of the Unclassified were color-blind; 22.6 per cent of the Freshmen and 68.9 per cent. of the Unclassified students had been vaccinated against typhoid; 4.5 per cent of the Freshmen and 1.1 per cent. of the Unclassified men had not been vaccinated against smallpox. Of the 191 Freshmen who wore glasses, 87 used them for reading, eight used them for distance, and 96 used them constantly...
...Fogg Art Museum there is a unique and little-known display of drawings, diagrams, paintings in oil and water color, designs and photographs, all of which have been collected and given to the Museum by Denman W. Ross '75. The purpose of this interesting collection is to demonstrate the theories of design, composition, and color, and they are much used by Professor A. Pope '01 in his fine arts courses...
...collection begins with a series of diagrams which illustrate the principles of design--the harmonious division of areas based upon geometric forms. Next in sequence are considerations of design in its relations of light and dark color, and color intensity. The examples of this include some very entertaining drawings by children, in which their powers of representation are enhanced by their having taken into consideration in their pictures the first simple principles of design...
Other examples of color and its value in design are furnished by copies of textiles, mostly by students of Dr. Ross. Finally these theories are carried into the field of representative painting in which Dr. Ross used his color scale and palette entirely. Most of the canvasses are small sketches but some are larger and more finished pictures...
These fragments, hastily executed in pencil, brush, pen, or water-color, present the most graphic pictorial record of the Yankee in France that we remember to have seen. It is of slight importance that, in such drawings as "Home" and "Her Boy Too", we can trace plainly the Style of Poulbot: or that the wash drawings entitled, "The Gardener's Cottage", "Toul Sector Days", and "The Town of Cuffles", remind us forcibly of Bruce Bairnsfather. The fact is that, missing alike the delicate expressiveness of the French draughtsman and the whimsicality of the Britisher, Mr. Baldridge strikes a note...