Word: vividness
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Lanciani on Roman Archaeology, the present course by Prof. Frothingham on Assyrian Archaeology, and the proposed lectures of Mr. Charles Waldstein on Greek Archaeology, form a connected whole, and cover a field where interesting facts presented in an interesting manner are rarely to be found. These lectures present a vivid future of ancient life, which both classical students and others may readily understand and appreciate, while the comparison of Roman, Greek, and Assyrian Archaeology, as given by the distinguished scholars who lecture before us, forms a valuable study which none of us will again be able to follow. The students...
...little sketch, "Where the Muse Abideth," is perhaps the best, it is followed by another sketch, "An Unpleasant Reminiscence," which is decidedly disappointing. As to the two stories, "Right or Wrong?" and "Violin," the former is a peculiar but not unlikely tale well brought out, the latter is a vivid piece of writing rather packing in moral tone. A story with a moral tacked on the end is usually tiresome, a story like "Violin" without a moral scattered through it deserves tile praise. A collection of six daily themes selected from English XII. forms a pleasant innovation. The first...
...great forum, originally a low swampy ground, was gradually transformed to the magnificent parallogram which its name now calls to our minds. Professor Lanciani gave a very vivid picture of the appearance of the forum as it must have been in antiquity. The best preserved forum in Rome is entirely inaccessible because there are two convents on the site. The forum of Trajan was by all means the most impressive and magnificent...
...every period of her history the college has been a true person, a very alma mater to her children. The vividness of such personification must be great in proportion to the prominence and distinctness of human life in the institution which thus assumes personality. Not the railroad or the factory, things of machinery, but the church or the college, things of men, stand forth like great human beings and accept their titles when we call them he or she. And just because she has human life within her in its most vivid, and eager, and critical time and shape, does...
...hemorrage of the brain artery is the most dangerous one possible, as blood flows to the brain from two directions. The lecturer gave a vivid exposition of these various arteries by painting them on the naked body of a young boy, who stood the ordeal well. The proper place for pressure to stop the flow of blood, are the neck, behind the collar-bone, the inner side of the upper arm, the part over the hip bone, and the inside of the thigh. Hot and cold applications are also...