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

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IT 1 f - i 1 1 i Within your own experience and observation, it must be apparent now that attention can be gained through mere innovation and stylistic extravagance. Thus there is temptation in the use of easy skill and chance accident to avoid the rigors of conceptual exploration and to capitalize on popular visual modes. There will always be those that succumb to such temptation but I trust that your time spent under the tutelage of an exacting yet understanding faculty has developed the recogni- tion that although playful exercise can create splashing in the shallows, insight and skill are needed for swim- ming in waters of depth and unknown challenge.

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The appearance of the Massachusetts College of Art Annual always has a very personal significance to each person in the college. For the college itself, it marks this year the ninety-first anniversary in its distinguished history and a year of special richness and realization. For each student, it identifies another long step toward that professional excellence through which each will distinguish himself in the exacting world of the arts. For the faculty and administration, the Annual is a warm record of the students and the college to which they have devoted their special skills and talented leadership and inspiration. For all, this Annual is a joyous expression of that mutual esteem and affection which has grown up among us all and which is a special characteristic of those who work together in our illustrious college — Massachusetts College of Art. PRESIDENT

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During the darkest days of the French’ Revolution, the young poet Wordsworth wrote: Bliss was it that dawn to be alive, But to be young was very heaven! In the midst of those violent days when established structures crumbled into chaos, Wordsworth saw glorious prospects for a new world of equality and justice. He re- joiced in being young enough to help to bring that new world into being. Our present era, disordered and turbulent though it is, can inspire you with a like excitement. A brighter world is evident in the fight against poverty, in the movement for peace, and in the recognition of civil rights. It is the youth of today who will be called upon to bring forward their accomplishment. Here in this book with its record of the past year, you see yourself in a moment of time. You have presented to you many activities which individually and from day to day may have seemed of little value. Grouped as a whole, however, they show that you have made a truly formidable record of achievement. May this record inspire you with confidence in yourself so to utilize your training as to bring about a radiant world in which it will be bliss to be alive. DEAN of WOMEN