Massachusetts College of Art and Design - Palette and Pen Yearbook (Boston, MA)

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FREDERICK W. WALLACE Instructor’s assistant RICHARD ANDREW Instructor in charge of Department of Graphic Arts f Costumed Model, Medium and Composition “I have praised you When you have well deserved ten times as much, As I have said you did.” — Shakespeare ARTHUR RAY Instructor in charge of Department of Mechinical Drafting Mechanical Drawing; Descriptive Geometry, and Laboratory Work in Mechanic Arts ‘‘The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are, the more leisure we have.” — Hazlitt.

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LAURIE E. HYSON Instructor in Costume Illustration, Medium, and Costume Research “Fashion is only the attempt to realize art in living forms.” — Holmes 3IARTHA M. FLINT Instructor in Costume Drafting and Proving Prac- tice “Fashion is a potency in art.” — Stedman RAYMOND PORTER Instructor in Modeling and Casting; Design in Re- lief The object of art is to crystallize emotion into thought, and then fix in it form. — Delsarte

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CLASS OF 1917— GREETINGS! Every class going out from the Massachusetts Normal Art School carries with it a large measure of responsibility in undertaking that ser- vice for which it has been trained. The Class of 1917 faces unusual con- ditions brought about by readjustment of international relationships; closer scannings of economic responsibility; and a more general demand upon the part of all employers, both educational and industrial, for imme- diate efficiency. In establishing the Massachusetts Normal Art School the Common- wealth initiated one of the first movements for industrial education as we know it today. The provision for art instruction for all the people was a suggestion for vocational guidance of gifted individuals as well as training for all citizens toward a better appreciation of tasteful industrial products. In the establishment of these foundations many farsighted people recog- nized a declaration that the position of Massachusetts as a national, as well as an international, unit was largely dependent upon her ability to couple the power of taste in and appreciation of industrial art to her ex- ceptional skill of hand. It is by means of these well organized courses of art instruction, first in the public schools of our towns and cities, and later in this institution, that you who stand at the gates of 1917 have been found, selected, and guided to your present status of training. Through these instrumental- ities you have been given freely the best of opportunities that the “Old School” could offer. The test of your fitness for graduation lies in the ability of “1917” as individuals to meet the known demands of the out- side world as teachers, designers, modelers, illustrators and draftsmen. Na- turally the educational and the industrial world cannot expect of you at this time that full-flowering which can come only with the more advanced training of mature life. You go out as junior workers. The stamp of ap- proval rests not alone upon our State Board of Education, nor upon the decisions of your Faculty, but upon your own personal ability developed through school and part-time relations in the world’s work to meet the world’s demands. This Year Book may serve as a memory and a reminder of the in- cidents, events, and relationships of studio, hall, classroom and corridor which have bound you together as a part of the far-stretching fabric, the pattern of which is the history of the School. Many of the things which in after years you would like to find in this book have perhaps been forgotten and omitted. Some of the productions, both literary and artistic, which might have made this little booklet one of more numerous paging may have been crowded out by pressure of scheduled work. Into it, however, must have gone much of the earnest spirit which has made your class what it is and in it you will surely find those loyal elements of personality which we have learned to know so well. Concerning the Class and its booklet one might well offer the wish of Chaucer, England’s early poet, when he said, “Go, little book, God speed thee good passage.” JAMES FREDERICK HOPKINS, Director of Art Education for Massachusetts.