Word: vigorating
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...China. "It is altogether just to add," he says, "that nowhere perhaps in the wide world is there a people that stand more in need of sanitary and medical science; and nowhere is to be found a race more deserving of these benefits whether by their native physical vigor or by their admirable national qualities...
...stage is greater this year than ever before. Though still existing under the same disadvantages as last season, having to borrow from Radcliffe what it cannot get here in the University, namely stage, auditorium, and storage space, the 47 Workshop is resuming its unique work with renewed vigor. The departments of acting, costuming, scene painting, stage designing and lighting are being organized on a larger scale the year and everything points to a successful season. The great need of this organization is a building of its own, as the conditions under which it now exists are very hampering...
...close is distinctly weak. W. D. Crane in "Bully" and L. Wood, Jr., in "Short, Sweet and Bitter" do not succeed so well in following the difficult master. Both attempt what few people can accomplish skilfully in clearing up their mysteries by means of a letter, and both lack vigor and compactness. Whatever the merits and demerits of the stories, however, the Advocate has been unwise in selecting three so similar. Had O. Henry himself written them we would be justified in asking a little variety. The two bits of verse, best characterized as pleasant, are neither important enough...
...with our brethren from Princeton and Yale, debating has rapidly acquired the prestige which it deserves in view of its vital connection with the public life into which it is but natural that college men should go upon graduation. May "the Harvard habit of winning debates" continue in full vigor...
...performance as a whole was well worth the effort, and the University ought to take full advantage of the rare opportunity of seeing a play of the Restoration performed with so much vigor and understanding...