Word: vividness
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Both of these men combine the rare qualities of teachers and thinkers. Not only are they true scholars, but they are also great teachers with the power to make their philosophy a vivid and vital study for all who enjoy the pleasure of their instruction. Even though we bid these men farewell, we rejoice that they leave behind a priceless heritage of writings that will ever remain a source of pleasure and inspiration for all Harvard...
...article of very great interest is the second half of the oration of the French Ambassador delivered before Phi Beta Kappa last June on Rochambeau in America. The address not only shows how much America was indebted to France for the final victory in the Revolution, but draws a vivid picture of the fighters of those days as living men and not heroic statues on the village green...
...Mary, the early Laws and Form of Initiation, extracts from the Records of the Society, and from the letters sent by the Harvard Chapter to the Yale Chapter in the eighteenth century, and notes taken from other sources in regard to the anniversary meetings;--the whole giving a vivid picture of the Society's life during the first century of its existence...
...about time we got away from Stephen Phillips even as a point of departure. To a non-Socialist Souther's "Socialism and Beauty" is not absolutely clear; the one thing the reviewer feels sure about is that it could have been written in a much more entertaining and vivid fashion. His "aesthete" is valuable if only for showing up the type for which the Monthly seems to have such admiration...
...Professor Palmer reminds us again of the magnitude of his work. Not only is he a deep-thinking philosopher, but he possesses that rare power of making others think. Not only is he a true scholar, but he is a great teacher with the power to make philosophy a vivid and vital study for all who enjoy the pleasure of his instruction...