Word: sound
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...would sound like sarcasm to urge men to attend this afternoon's class races and to support their respective crews. The interest taken in to-day's race has perhaps been unequalled for many years as the prospect for a close and exciting contest has never been fairer. The hard and conscientious training of all the eights entitle them all to the victory. But it will be muscle and skill that will turn the scale to-day. Seniors, juniors, sophomores and freshmen all have our good wishes...
...organizations in the union, which have to depend upon subscriptions for support. It is obvious that this consolida-would not work to advantage unless all the associations joined and should not be entered into under any other considerations; but a compact of all the athletic interests bound by a sound constitution could not fail to be both economical and beneficial to the college...
...would a league of Princeton, Harvard, Columbia and Pennsylvania sound?" - Pennsylvanian...
Well, it is rather hard to commit one's self on such a proposition as the foregoing. How would the league sound? It might sound all right one way and then again it might not; for instance to a student from that cradle of athletics - the University of Pennsylvania - it might sound all right. There is melody in the name Pennsylvania; then, too, the derivation of the word is classic to a greater or less degree, and yet after all it seems as if a short one-syllabled name that we can think of supplies the place of Pennsylvania very...
...Chenoweth, on the negative treated the subject in a humorous way, and entertained the Union for fifteen minutes with some apt stories, as well as several sound arguments...