Word: sound
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...improvement of style in writing revives the subject of college reading. A well read college man is a rarety; almost an anomily. It is true that we cannot all with Mill read Thucydides in the cradle, nor do we care to read Pilgrims Progress until the trumpets do indeed "sound on the further side." But there is a mean which every earnest student can and ought to cultivate in the matter of reading beyond the narrow limit of his courses. As the two prime reasons for reading are that we may gain information, and at the same time form...
...athletics, and popular in his class, - a very favorable specimen of what outsiders would call the representative Harvard type. If such a one as he could seriously speak of a "nice fellow" as cheating, in spite of your recent editorials, I should say public opinion was very far from sound...
...pronunciation of Latin, as now taught at Harvard, would sound like burlesque to those who learned Latin 20 or 30 years ago. Veni, vidi, vici, is pronounced wanee, wedee, weeke. This revolution is due to Prof. George M. Lane, who thinks he finds his authority for it in a careful study of Quintilian. - Cornell...
...express wagons was seen carrying a drum which was left at the end of the Cambridge Common. After tea the Delta and its vicinity was not thronged, as usual on the first Monday evening, with students in their most ragged attire and with spectators. But erelong the sound of a drum was heard, and soon a procession appeared, at the head of which was a drum-major or grand marshal with a huge bearskin cap and baton, accompanied by assistants with craped staff and torches, and followed by two bass-drummers (students beating muffled drums); the elegist or chaplain, with...
...Page closes by saying that what Yale needs most, is a new sort of President. "He must be a man of commanding executive ability, proficient in pedagogy, a sound economist, unhampered by the details of professional drudgery...