Word: vividness
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...many students from the college. Mr. Longfellow, after giving a short account of the work Senator Dawes is now trying to accomplish in Congress, introduced Walter Baptiste, an Indian of the Sac and Fox tribe, who spoke on "What will you do with the Indian." He gave a vivid picture of life in Dacotah and spoke of the influence for good which graduates of such schools as the Hampton Institute are exerting on their own people. He appealed for more education and for separate reservations among the Indians...
...conclusion the Colonel drew a vivid picture of the end. The Union soldier went back to his home his flag floating proudly above him, his uniform honored his native village untouched by the horrors of war. On the other hand the flag and tattered uniforms of the Confederate disappeared forever, and the southern volunteer went back to a devastated country with property lost, his cause disgraced, and nothing left him but weary years of reconstruction and memories of his bloody...
...considered as one of Wagner's finest works, which will do more toward sustaining his reputation than some of his later operas. The first theme can be compared favorably for dignity with most modern compositions, while the "Venus" music is ununequalled for pure vuluptuous beauty. It is a most vivid picture of a soul torn by contending passions, and although the noble principle conquers at last, the shivering scales of the violins shows the violence of the struggle. It was magnificently played, and such a burst of applause as followed has rarely been heard at any concert...
...cozy drinking-bout for about four hours of an evening!" This rebuke was greeted with a loud burst of laughter by all his hearers, and in order to maintain his aggressive standpoint successfully, and to convince his hearers of the truth of his statement, he gave a vivid description of one of these "drinking nights." The students form regular clubs whose constitution, by-laws, and members all centre about the beer-mug. A meeting is held once or twice every week in some particularly favored "kneipe," where the most palatable beer can be had. Some of these clubs appoint...
William J. Potter has the following to say about compulsory attendance on prayers at Harvard: "We were four years at Harvard, when there were prayers twice a day. We recall vividly the early morning bell, - it was rung very much earlier than now, - the hurried toilet, the rush of students through the yard, converging from all quarters, the leap of the final belated crowd up the chapel steps in eager, noisy rivalry to get within the door before the bell should stop, under penalty of receiving a black mark for tardiness, a worse offence than absence; we recall the monitors...