Word: vivid
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Some Private Notes from an Elective Course of Horatio Butts" is natural and vivid in its opening picture of college life. The story is rather touching, but the conclusion is perhaps a little artificial...
...Women of the French Salons" is exceedingly interesting and the illustrations are a gallery by themselves. With such vivid writing it is hard to realize that all is ashes of those bright pretences...
...Saint Carlos" is another description, of which the scene is laid in California. It contains a number of vivid touches...
...Grenfell, the other on "Rowing at Cambridge," by R. C. Lehmann. Mr. Grenfell's article is a sketch of an imaginary Oxford man who enters college knowing nothing about rowing, and ends by being stroke of the 'varsity eight. In the course of this sketch a vivid description is given of rowing matters at Oxford, of the novice, torpid. college and the 'varsity crews, the amount of training and coaching each has to undergo. Strict training at Oxford begins in Lent. Every morning the crew take a walk around the parks ending up with a 100-yard sprint. The 'varsity...
...boats take part. Then come the May races, the Colquhoun races, and the university trial eights races. This last is a race between two picked crews selected by the president of the university boat club from the promising men of every college club. In conclusion Mr. Lehman draws a vivid and charming picture of the delights of rowing at Cambridge and the happiness attendant upon a victory over Oxford...