Word: vividness
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...last meeting of the Historical Society, Professor Emerton, in an informal lecture, spoke of the methods of study and instruction in history. There are three methods now pursued by instructors, which are suitable for students of different ages. First, by imparting facts in a vivid and very interesting manner. This method would only apply to children in the primary schools. Second, by paying more attention to the philosophical part of history, showing the relation between different events, and the bearing of particular instances on general laws. This method could be profitably carried on in high schools and colleges. Third...
...memories, perhaps, are more pleasant than those that cluster about one's college days. To us, however, this college life is a vivid reality; it has not yet slipped by and into the musty past. But something akin to the feelings of some graduate of the '60's must be those that many of us experience in looking back over the years spent at the training schools at which we fitted for college. Many a friendship formed at school still endures, now that we are in college, and bids fair to remain constant through life. No wonder, then, that...
...course does not undertake to describe completely the entire course of the campaigns of the Civil War in their endless detail. An attempt will rather be made to give a vivid impression of the war by describing graphically the more important battles, thus illustrating the more significant phases of the war and bringing out the bearing upon the general result of the particular events described. The lectures are to be illustrated by large special maps. Nearly all the lectures have been prepared with special reference to this course. Some difficulty has been experienced in filling out the list, as military...
...lecture on Indian life, at the Peabody Museum yesterday afternoon, was attended by a large audience, including many ladies. Miss Fletcher, with the aid of her collection of curiosities, was enabled to give a vivid and interesting account of the domestic habits of the Omaha Indians, among whom she spent several years. She described their style of indoor work, methods of arranging their camps according to gens, and many other interesting details...
...nevertheless. Within the past three weeks, our entertainments have been quite numerous for Wellesley. Prof. Adams, of Michigan University, has given us two lectures, "A Day in the House of Commons" and "Papacy in the Middle Ages." The former was especially interesting. Prof. Adams related in a vivid way several amusing incidents in the career of different speakers of the House, and described the whole day's doings so happily that the listeners could almost believe they had been there, eye-witnesses to it all. The lecture on Papacy was equally good, and very fully attended. These long winter evenings...