Word: vigour
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...have kept it up to its high inspirational note throughout these long and happy years. The Student Vagabond has a Big Message. I think and I think that you have stuff to put it over. As my last professor in English A said about Shakespeare: "his dashing vigour of phrase has all the earmarks of diablerie in pen and ink." And her I am saying it about you! Well! And all the boys will tell you that I'm usually pretty indifferent about thing.... Harvard indifference, you know...
...girdled green there bask the plains Where, with his timeless smiles. And mushroom hat, brown Vigour gains His spindling roots, his haulms, his grains- The Oriental Giles. Blunden looks long at familiar things; sometimes his best poetry is the result: Sprawl not so monster-like, blind mist; I know not "seems"; I am too old a realist To take sea-dreams From you, or think a great white Whale Floats through our hawthorn-scented vale- This foam-cold vale. So long and lovingly does he look that when he speaks, he tells of things many a reader's restless...
Shubert Evelyn Herbert in "The New Moon" which seems to have retained its youthful vigour for nearly two years...
...year's figures. Very possibly the change is only a temporary one, or, if permanent, it may be due to other causes than the liberal tendencies of the Department. If, however, it can be shown that it is these latter that are the cause of its renewed vigour, the heads of the Department will have verified for them what they doubtless know already--that progressive methods are as productive of results in education as in any other field...
...Yale could offer more in this direction than we, nor to bewail the loss of a splendid institution. It is for us to recognize an accomplished fact, and to be supremely happy that a movement which many of us cherished so highly is to have new life and added vigour...