Word: vigorating
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Among the undergraduate body, the thought of democracy is farcical, Men come to college at the most plastic stage of manhood, when it would seem they ought to be willing to accept a man at his own value--according to that man's ability, his intellectual vigor, his social capacity. Is this the case, or is there not rather a wide gulf between those who live in the little frame houses in out-of-the-way streets, and those who inhabit the gold coast; those who make the clubs, and those who don't? One could hardly object...
...prose contributions a story, "Strangers," by Hardinge Scholle, is the most ambitious. There are, besides, two brief sketches by A. D. Fay and Thomas Wharton, and two pieces of critical writing. This is all well enough, but falls short of the vigor and originality of which undergraduates have frequently shown themselves capable. They are still capable of something better than the average contents of the professedly "literary" undergraduate periodicals at Harvard. It is often said that a coalition of existing periodicals would bring this to pass. Is it not possible that some improved process of "digging out" the best might...
...prose is on the whole better than the verse. The anonymous "Note on Carlyle," whether its doctrine is acceptable or not, shows competence and vigor. Mr. Fisher's "Lanky" is an unusually good story, exhibiting in a small space some skill in plot, character, setting and surprise. Mr. Scholle's "Fair at Lausanne," which in its paragraphing recalls the Boston American, is alive with good detail. Mr. Fay's "On Keeping a Diary" gives an impression of quaintness without affection, and abundance without waste. Of the editorials on the proposals of peace, the second is the more striking. The review...
...more, it is readable. It describes the rich settings and costumes of the recent opera with a color and a freshness of epithet that hold the lay reader. The description of Zuloaga's "Portrait of a Dancing Girl" is rather less successful. Though a faithful picture, it lacks the vigor and life which Mr. Larkin has breathed into his portrayal of "Till Eulenspiegel." "Mr. Sunday on College Men," we have, written in newspaper style, an interview with the famous evangelist. As an interview it is intimate and wholly interesting; as literature, of course, it is of less merit...
...never gotten much nearer to Harvard than the Stadium, which I visited and cheered myself hoarse in, at Saturday's game, but I have met men throughout this whole country in every walk of life who owe their start to Harvard and to Technology." Then he swung with characteristic vigor into the theme of his famous sermon...