Word: vigor
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...close is distinctly weak. W. D. Crane in "Bully" and L. Wood, Jr., in "Short, Sweet and Bitter" do not succeed so well in following the difficult master. Both attempt what few people can accomplish skilfully in clearing up their mysteries by means of a letter, and both lack vigor and compactness. Whatever the merits and demerits of the stories, however, the Advocate has been unwise in selecting three so similar. Had O. Henry himself written them we would be justified in asking a little variety. The two bits of verse, best characterized as pleasant, are neither important enough...
...with our brethren from Princeton and Yale, debating has rapidly acquired the prestige which it deserves in view of its vital connection with the public life into which it is but natural that college men should go upon graduation. May "the Harvard habit of winning debates" continue in full vigor...
...performance as a whole was well worth the effort, and the University ought to take full advantage of the rare opportunity of seeing a play of the Restoration performed with so much vigor and understanding...
...after all the individualism which we all desire to conserve and promote is primarily a matter of intellectual vigor...
...logic of the Graduate Student's assertion that the Freshman Dormitories will be a monument to the snobbishness which still exists in healthy vigor is obscure. Perhaps he means that they will be a gravestone to the vice; and we think they will...