Word: vividness
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...four principal divisions, those that tell of the preparation, the law day, and the undergraduates' day, foundation day and alumni day, being sub-divided according to time; the first event of the day being first mentioned and the last one last, an arrangement that makes the narration very vivid - if the reader happened to have been present at the celebration reinforcing his memory, and if not, allowing him to form a very clear idea of what the celebration...
Sing song verse intervenes, and then comes an article entitled "Old London Streets," the first, I am glad, to see of a series. The description is vivid in spite of awkward wording; the essay good in spite of abrupt ending, Book notices, the Items and the Brief end a number of which the editorialsa re the best part...
...most interesting numbers on the programme. It is one of the best modern compositions which Gericke has offered us for some time. It's great strength lies in the rich and intelligent orchestration and in the intensely dramatic and vivid manner in which the fate Desdemona is portrayed. The composer has adhered to strictly his own ideas and by doing so he has given us a most delightful and refreshing piece of music. The overture to Tannhaeuser made a very fitting close. It was given with great warmth and vigor the conductor allowing the bass more freedom than...
...they easily passed the rival boats and won by just one width; of the days of old when the freshmen beat the sophomores at bawl, and the seniors played hot Scotch on the College Green between Harvard and Massachusetts Halls, of how - but the rest we leave to the vivid pen of our historian. We make especial mention of this series of papers, in order that, at the close of this distressing period of the college year, we may assure ourselves that our readers will peruse something each day which by strictly impartial glorification of the college and its color...
...Greer preached entirely without notes and spoke in a most forcible, vivid and interesting manner. The text was taken from the 29th chapter of the Book of Proverbs, 18th verse, "Where there is no vision the people perish." "The word vision is here used not as knowledge in the ordinary sense of the word, but what was communicated to the prophets by the spirit of the Lord. A bright and pleasant vision is essential to a man's success in life and the noblest benefactor of the human race is he who gives the brightest visions. The human reason left...