Word: vividness
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...current Advocate contains three stories of especial merit, "The Prophecy of St. Peter," by C. S. Harper, 3S., "On the Way to the Club," and "Kelley's Scoop," by J. B. Holden, Jr., '99. The first is a tale of a mining town and draws several unusually vivid characters, notably that of the hero, Peter. The plot is interesting from the first and the local color carefully given. It is stories of this type that are most valuable in college papers, for they strike out in original pathos and require the gift of narration in a large degree...
...most interesting article in the current number of the Advocate is a story by Frazier Curtis '98 entitled "A Story of Soldiers Field." It is a strong, vivid tale of a Freshman athlete disappointed in his great desire to play on his winning football team against Yale by his own foolishness. This for once is a college story, which is real and natural to a college...
...lectures in aid of the Prospect Union will be well attended, since the Union is greatly in need of funds. It is hardly necessary to say that in these lectures Mr. Fiske is at his best, and that no man is better qualified to give a graphic and vivid account of the great engagements of our civil...
...Dreams," by Jarvis Keiley '99, is in some ways the most interesting of the undergraduate contributions. It begins with a description which is vivid and gives an atmosphere, and which further possesses a quality most rare in descriptions,- that of swiftness. But the swiftness is not maintained, and after this promising beginning the story declines unaccountably but yet perceptibly toward the common-place. The description of DaVinci's "La Gioconda by W. C. Arensberg 1900, is a remarkably subtle and sure bit of analytic character drawing. In spite of its inverted sentences a "Paragraph from Hawailan History...
...other hand, much in the book is cleverly done, although the author is at times unreal. The descriptions are especially good, leaving a crisp and vivid impression in the mind of the reader...