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

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For the past four years your goal has been the mas- tery of skill and expression in art. Perhaps you have dis- covered that the search for such mastery has been charac- terized by a restless alterna- tion between statement and judgement, between construc- tion and criticism. These years have been rich in that inter- action — a process resulting in sharpened awareness of what is mere entertainment for the eye and of what can be enrichment of the mind. If such discernment has led to continuing re-examination of what is considered true in life, then your efforts and those of your faculty have been re- warded amply.

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The appearance of the 1963 Annual of Massachusetts College of Art is, as always, an exciting and joyous accent in the life of each of those who appear on its pages. It is an anxious document of success achieved and of unknown vistas of accom- plishment yet to be. In an excitingly unpredictable world with unknown and fascinating opportunities the leadership of the creative mind is unassailed by thinking men. Our era, in many ways like the Renaissance, is one in which every discipline is seeking the creative, constructive and ordered methodology of the arts. For the students and alumni of this college, rigorously prepared in the ways of excellence, it is a most auspicious time. Your college will listen to hear reverberations of the praise you will attain and i n these echoes if will know its own success.

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For most of us, college education is a combination of the discovery of new ideas and of the awakening and developing of our latent talents. Another aspect of education, however, is that it opens vistas of all that is still to be learned and thereby makes us realize the vast stretches of man’s ignorance. The more we know, the more we become aware of what we do not know. The angry young man of today’s society, so often depicted in contemporary literature, expresses his contempt for ignorance and its evil manifestations: injustice, prejudice, and complacency. Although he fights against them violently, he is somehow powerless to destroy them. Perhaps his failure is due to the fact that his i valuable to society and Dean of Women