Word: sound
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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There are sound objections to "compulsory worship" in universities, which should be apparent to the university authorities from their own point of view. Their purpose is to maintain a religious interest in those who are professing Christians or who are inclined to become Christians, and to excite such an interest in those who are inclined to avoid religious influences. What effect does compulsion have upon the several classes of persons to whom it is applied? Does it not work more harm than good? So far as members of the church are concerned the effect of compulsion may be disregarded, although...
...tooting her little horn when occasion offers. At the alumni banquet in New York the other night, Mr. Depew allowed that Harvard and Princeton might lock horns on the great questions of destiny in the next world, but that Yale is satisfied for the present with giving the country sound law through her Chief Justice Waite, enacting wise laws by her Senator Evarts, constructing a navy worthy of our rank among nations and our proper defence through her Secretary of the Navy, Whitney, and rising to the best traditions of the diplomacy, scholarship, wit and eloquence of the American embassy...
...plain. First of all, this temper is a reaction against the spread eagle and unkempt oratory of frontier and semi-civilized congressmen in the old days whose deliverances in the Capitol were often grotesque and amusing - speech run mad and descending into oblivion in a very whirlwind of sound. Diseased oratory should give place to orators duly taught by our colleges, which exist to teach uses. It is treason to the republic to send untrained orators into the forum, since the will of many crystallized into laws and oratory is a supreme force to shape the crystals. An unreasoning...
...origin of college cheers may be traced to the boating contests of twenty-five years ago on Lake Quinsigamond between Harvard and Yale in the old fashioned sixes. The 'Rah! 'Rah! 'Rah! was then first heard; that of Harvard rolled out with a full strong sound, while that of Yale was given sharply and defiantly. Although both cheers look the same in print, the similarity is more apparent than real. Anyone who has ever been present at an athletic contest between these rival Universities will have readily observed the difference between the cheers. In the Town and Gown affrays, which...
...party of six Yale freshmen bagged 37 ducks in the Sound, lately. They claim to have broken the record...