Word: vividness
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...plot deals with the adventures of Leif Ericsson in his voyage to North America in the year 1000. The first act is laid Norway in that year. Biarna returns from his trip to the westward and his vivid description of the strange, new region he has seen causes Leif to set sail on a similar voyage of discovery. History is followed exactly and the costumes, designed by the Norwegian artist Born, are true to the life of that period in Norway...
...seems a pity that the four best stories in the number should all be unsigned. They are, in order of merit, "The Repentance of Ford," a remarkably well drawn college story; "Same Thing, only Different," a very amusing improbable sketch; "A Boat Race," a bit of vivid reminiscence of which the title tells the substance; and "Rosinante," a brutal tale which portrays fairly well the state of mind of a lonesome man in the wilderness. In these four stories the touch of amateurishness, so common in work of this sort, is conspicuously absent. The other four stories, while unworthy...
...printing such a story as "Snakes in Ecclesiastical History" the Advocate again seems to be in danger of falling a bit below its level. The plot is effectively brought out but there is some question as to whether a vivid three paged account of drunkenness does not endanger the standard of refinement which the Advocate has heretofore set for itself...
...Genius of Stephen Crane" by G. H. Montague is another critical writing. Though in the main appreciating Crane's genius as a writer of vivid war stories, it attacks his work in general on the ground that skeptical realism held him down to too narrow limitations...
...Dubois '01 entitled "Stuttering Steve's Hard Luck" is cleverly told without too much circumstance. R. W. Ruhi '03 has a somewhat unusual story in "The Original Girl." There is not much substance for so long a piece, but the bits of description incidentally thrown in are wonderfully vivid at times and stay in the memory. "The Hostelry of Drownding Creek" by R. W. Page '03, also contains some appreciative description in a fresh, original manner, though the phrasing is occasionally awkward. The selections of verse, "Indian Summer," and "My Lady on the Links" are both anonymous. The latter...