Word: vividness
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...William Lord Smith '86 gave an interesting illustrated lecture in the Living Room of the Union last evening on "Tiger Shooting; and Travels in Korea, China, and Java." Besides giving vivid details of killing tigers on the ridges of Korea, in the coves of southeastern China, and in the jungles of Java, he threw many side-lights on the strange life and stranger customs of the people. In the opinion of the lecturer the best and biggest tigers are found near the sea in southeastern China. These are all man-eaters and live in the deep caves in the very...
...Dilettantism" which opens the number is admirable in tone and content, but could have been made more effective with fewer words; and the editorials are clumsily written. In "Up from the Depths" Mr. David shows that he possesses good material, and as the story stands it gives one a vivid and gruesome picture of a mining accident. But as writing it has many faults. The short jerky sentences which might have been effective if used only for the climax of excitement become wearisome when used in paragraph after paragraph; and the writer's vocabulary lacks variety. The incident is related...
...with admirable directness and naturalness, and the characterization of the principal figures is excellent. Something of the same admirable restraint appears in R. J. Walsh's "Little Wanderers," which treats a difficult situation with delicacy and good taste. K. B. Townsend's "Deus ex Box Car" is marked by vivid and convincing description, and his picture of the brakeman and his wife and the happy-go-lucky youngster who "don't have to work" is skilfully drawn...
...Paris. He was in Russia at the time when the Czar made his famous speech at the opening of the Duma, reporting for Harper's Weekly. The things which he tells of in his talk were witnessed by his own eyes, and the pictures he shows, are very vivid witnesses of these sights...
...like to commend to students of the drama a series of "Interpretative Recitals" of Greek tragedies now being given in Boston by Professor R. G. Moulton of the University of Chicago. Professor Moulton keenly appreciates as dramatic literature the plays he interprets, and he has a rare power of vivid presentation, so that his running paraphrases and translations give almost the effect of an acted play. The recitals are given on Saturday mornings at 11 in Ford Memorial Hall, Ashburton place, close to the State House. Yours truly W. F. HARRIS...