Word: vividness
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...choir and the 'Varsity Glee club. This was followed by a prayer by Rev. Francis Peabody, after which Saint Saens' "Ave Verum" was sung. Rev. Lyman Abbott then delivered a short address taking for his text the temptation of Christ in the wilderness. The preacher drew a vivid picture of Christ's temptation by Satan and urged that Christ's example of fortitude be followed by every student. He declared that vanity and ambition were two faults especially to be avoided by students in a large university, and it was only by the most strenuous efforts that each student could...
...which happened long ago, while we entirely forget recent occurrences. A little study shows us that the ease with which any incident is recalled depends on the strength of the impression made on our minds at the time. We remember what happened years ago, merely because it made a vivid impression on our minds...
...Jose Coach" is a short sketch of California stage life by Mr. Frederick L. Duncan. It is a very good piece of description, the introduction being especially vivid. The idea is not new but the treatment is excellent, maintaining the interest to the very end. "Topics of the Day" include a thoughtful and suggestive letter to the freshman class, and a communication on the mutilation of library books, both of which are well worth reading, The former deserves the attention and reflection not only of those to whom it is addressed, but of every other man in college, treating...
...whole caste deserve high commendation for their interpretation of their parts, but if one must discriminate one may say with justice that Mr. Whitlesey as Orestes, Miss Hamilton as Electra, and Mr. Platt as a former relative of Agamemnon, excelled. The old man's vivid recital of the alleged death of Orestes, was particularly well done and deserves especial mention. The acting of the chorus, too, as they hung listening on the old man's lips was very lifelike. Every gesture. every attitude betrayed each change of feeling during his recital...
...with the feeling that he is nearing a monument in literature; not to blend futile research into minor matters with the effort to appreciate the poem. This is not necessary. If the student will read the poems of Homer as a literature he will be brought into direct and vivid contact with the poet and will see and understand as by instinct...