Word: sound
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...State of Massachusetts delights to join in the celebration of this festival occasion, which marks a great anniversary in the life and career of our ancient university. Our dear alma mater and our honored and progressive Commonwealth, have come down the centuries together, intimately allied for the advancement of sound learning, for a larger liberty, for a more intimate and patriotic citizenship, for a sympathetic support of the movements to improve the condition and welfare of our people, and to make universal the blessings of civil and religious freedom. To-day Massachusetts and Harvard university, receiving with gratitude the congratulations...
...what I know is in the hearts of all, that whatever of effort he shall make for sound and just government, for the preservation of the liberties of the people for clean politics, [cheers and loud applause] for an incorruptible administration of the momentous trusts of his office, he will find himself in close accord with the high aims that actuated the founders of Harvard College, and of the fathers that gave us our beloved Commonwealth. [Cheers and applause...
...Portrait of a Pencil is a very well conceived tale. In Dr. Palmer's Experiment we have another of the double-identity stories which are so frequent in current literature. Mr. McCleary has contributed an exceedingly bright poem entitled. The Ballad of the Climcha Isles. It gives evidence of sound imagination. and is written in very smooth lines through which flows a subtle undercurrent of delicious humor. The remaining poetry deserves no particular notice. Finally we would call attention to a very ably written review of the new Quarterly Journal of Economics, which is one of the best book notices...
Nothing shows more clearly the advance of rational ideas of education with us than the rapidly increasing use which is made of the gymnasium by the college at large. True education requires a sound body as its first requisite and a thorough awakening to this fact is a circumstance most encouraging for the success of all of Harvard's experiments in educational matters. In the few days since college opened, there have been nearly three hundred applications for physical examinations. Forty applications have been made for lockers above the number now in the gymnasium. As there are over nine hundred...
...view, the best piece of student literary work which has been published at Harvard for years. While there is evident a tendency to pedantic allusion and a fondness for a Macaulay-like form of statement, the work on the whole is firm and eminently scholarly. There is a sound, timely editorial upon special work in advanced courses in history, political economy, and natural history...