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

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junior class President Vice-President Secretary Treasurer In three years, reluctantly, we are facing the gray ghost of our own pent-up knowledge, the self-criticism that has come in the eleventh hour. The time that seemed so long is running out, and uncovered in its passage a balance between what we did and what we had hoped to do. Not that we are frightened by it, or too greatly alarmed. It comes, rather, as a blow to our pride, to what little confidence we had, as the recognition of a weak line, a borrowed idea, or a hasty judgment. We had been seeing our work only through the eyes of others, feeling that it could not bear our own analysis. Rejection and acceptance were swift, impression transient. Now, the missing overtones and subtleties are rising, and the opinions we re- served for others are turning inward. We are coming at last to know ourselves. We have another year: the time has come to put a clear eye to the canvas and a firm hand to the brush. Our own arts, ideas, and judgments are truer to us than any we can distill out of the past or present. The kindest critic we will know is at our shoulder — but he recognizes only the best. Dorothy Weafer George Lane Thomas Donlon Jean Wells Nancy Peering