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

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activit es For some the post year may bring memories of lost point brushes, mis- place matboards, or frenzied searchings for a big portfolio, but also fond recollections of social functions in which we all participated, in one way or another. The first thing on the program was Mass. Art ' s way of getting the new members of the school off to a flying start — known to the more dignified as Freshman Week. A blissful week for the upper classes — many favors be- stowed on them by Freshmen — with the proper respect, of course, if only after a little prodding. As a final touch to the Week, the Freshmen gave us a hilarious time as they paraded around in their Gay Nineties get-ups. These Get-ups , ( costumes is definitely not the right word) caught — and held — every eye in the cafeteria, especially the young ladies ' bustles and the young gentlemen ' s handle-bar moustaches, which were works of art. They showed themselves to be intelligent as well as stylish in the combination (puiz Program and Drawing Class which followed, not to mention their musical abilities, revealed in the form of a Barber Shop quartet. They should be justly proud. The approach of the next activity was gradual. For days we had been eat- ing our lunches amid large and flagrantly-hued pieces of colored paper. For a while hunger overcame curiosity, but as time went on and we be- came aware of the fact that our cafeteria was becoming populated with larige pink horses, mammoth purple cows and many chickens, we began to

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SMOKE GETS IN .YOUR EYES These two thin blue lines twist and move as if they know they are beautiful — and the thin waver- ing yellow at the other end — that ' s the nicotine I suppose. Well what of it — a lot of people are great in spite of all the nicotine they consume — it ' s whaf they believe in and love that matters. These things that I believe in and love so! Why can ' t I say Look everybody! Can ' t you see how important this green gold is and the sun on this clean hair and these bricks and this straw and this smooth, smooth wood. Why can ' t I be beautiful just because I want so to be. Why isn ' t it better that someone else who isn ' t me, is, and I can have the awful joy of looking at them. But I don ' t have to look to feel it, I don ' t have to see and hold the smooth or the earthy things. I just have to know about them and love them and the feeling is here, like walking upside down in a yellow light that is a blue haze too — like having too much something I haven ' t at all : : : : It ' s going — I can get it back — maybe — if I think what it was that made it come — I think I was watching the smoke

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ask timid questions. The answer was ridiculously simple — decorations for the approaching Hoe-Down . This barn dance was the real thing — square dances with a professional prompter, hay, cider and doughnuts, an even a photograph in the next day ' s paper. The traditional ceremony of Smock Day, and the Freshmen really became a part of the student body, despite being marked for weeks afterward by those bright green smocks. We remember President Philbrick ' s inspiring talk on that occasion. The motif of our Christmas Party was Old Boston, dear to art students. This theme was carried out in the place-cards and in the big-three dimen- sional cut-paper murals in the cafeteria and in the foyer where the dance was held. One of these murals showing the market district of Boston made its appearance at the Museum of Fine Arts, during the Boston Builds show. Those students whose commuting schedule permitted enjoyed something new this year — visiting with Miss Munsterberg after school of a Wednes- day afternoon. And to carry on other traditions of the past, we have the Spring Formal — a night at Pops — the Mother and Daughter Tea — Thus, when we remove our noses from a Psychology book and our fingers from a jar of paint, we manage to have our lighter extra-curricular activities. Roberta Whipple