Word: vividness
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...should be of interest to every Harvard man, is the "Letters and Recollections of Alexander Agassiz; With a Sketch of His Life and Work," edited by his son, G. R. Agassiz '84. The biography is unique and extremely entertaining. It could hardly be improved upon, for it gives a vivid idea of a great man's personality and of the amazing work which he accomplished...
Such was the vivid description of the start of Saturday's race as seen by one of Boston's news-gatherers. For up-to-date journalism we have seen nothing to equal it and, coming as it does from one of our most accurate journals, we cannot but believe it. We are sorry that our reporter was unable to be present at the race and regret exceedingly that we, therefore, cannot give our readers an account of it this morning...
...verse which the club has acted in its five years of producing Harvard plays. It unfolds a tense Viking tale of wrong suffered, and heroic retribution, woman upon man. The theme is different from that of any play that the club has produced and offers large opportunities for vivid acting. Mr. H. T. Parker '90, dramatic editor of the Boston Transcript, says, "The short plays that the club has previously acted have been of many kinds. This spring they promise manifold excitements...
...Roswell Bates tonight upon "The New York Underworld." Mr. Bates, by reason of his long service as director of the famous Spring Street Settlement House, in New York, is peculiarly qualified to discuss the social problems presented by the "underworld" of the metropolis. His frank and vivid descriptions of the appalling evils arising from the congested life of the tenements have interested and aroused large audiences of college men at the Northfield Conferences, at Yale, at Princeton, and at other colleges. His wide knowledge of social conditions, his sincerity, and enthusiasm have brought him fame and popularity as a lecturer...
...over whose head the plate was smashed. Was his skull fractured? And what manner of man was Mr. Kornfield's Sergius, so stirred by a chromo, competent analyst of Oscar Wilde's tremendous ballad, victim of the Sicilian fruit seller and the New York policeman? It's very vivid painting of New York, very real and very unreal. Do not all these story tellers need to ponder and take to heart the doctrine which Mr. Skinner so clearly sets forth...