Word: vividness
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...conducting these services, has adopted a new way of making them interesting. He reads from the Evangelists chapters selected so as to give the life of Christ in a chronological way. This idea is new and makes the conception of the life of Christ more real and vivid than is obtained from the usual reading of the New Testament. The benefit derived from a daily glimpse of a pure strong life is not to be doubted; and if a man aims only at self-culture, he could scarcely spend fifteen minutes of each day more profitably than at chapel...
...Martha J. Lamb, is highly entertaining and instructive, as it treats of that period in Washington's life, of which the public know least, his career as president and his later life. Extracts taken from his diary reveal the simplicity and dignity of our first president, and from a vivid description of his official life in New York. There are several plates accompanying the article, among which are copies of portraits of Washington by distinguished artists of that time...
...degree of L. L. D. on so uncouth a Westerner as President Jackson was. Mr. Schouler's description of Andrew Jackson's characteristics and his estimate of his culture are particularly interesting. Harvard's attitude in conferring the degree on the people's president is freely ridiculed and a vivid picture is given of the scene in University Hall, where the grand farce was enacted. The article is in Mr. Schouler's best style and is a valuable contribution to local Harvard history...
...college is due both to the Philosophical Club for its enterprise in inviting Prof. Adler to lecture here, and to that eminent moralist for his acceptance of the task. To all those who had the good fortune of listening to him last night, the effect of his earnest and vivid moralizing will be lasting and beneficial. We trust that we have not heard Prof. Adler for the last time and that other men of his stamp may be induced to visit the University and root in it thoughts and sentiments akin to those which he so indelibly impressed upon...
...Then through the vivid expectant hush