Word: sound
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Year is surely come at last; and we have noted with surprise and admiration the evidences of the firm observance of good resolutions of the season. 1886 promises to be a marked year in the history of Fair Harvard. It has been ushered in without sound of clarion, it is true, but could clarion note add celebrity to an introduction so startling and gratifying? The Lampoon - we are overcome with pride in our brother's success - has actually succeeded in keeping, until the time of issuing the first number, a new year's resolution, to dress old jokes...
...wasted, or spent in any but the most desirable and effective way. Let the new year be begun in the right spirit, with a hearty response from every man in college to the calls for support of our worthy athletic organizations. Let us put the Boat Club on a sound financial basis at once, and with its present officers we may be sure that it will so remain...
...fiord," one of the features of which is a beautiful love song, given out by the clarinet and interrupted by the distant notes of the horns. The third movement is also pleasing, and may be supposed to represent a sleigh ride, as the prevailing figure suggests the sound of horses' feet and the triangle the sleigh-bells. The other two movements are exceedingly gloomy in character. In the first a lovely second subject gives some relief which is wanting in the last. As a whole the symphony is exceedingly interesting to the musician, but the average listener would probably receive...
...sound of pistol shots in the vicinity of the Jefferson Physical Laboratory appears to have excited some students who have recitations in the Lawrence Scientific School. They have no reason for anxiety; it is only the members of Physics C, trying to find out how fast sound travels...
...they are exposed with very different results. Another subject of the very greatest importance to health is food. Exercise for persons of sedentary habits is of prime importance. Cleanliness and sleep are too well known as requirements of good health to need much comment. We want to make ourselves sound in wind and limb, in heart and brain. We are all glad to be freed from aches or pains; how much better if we avoid some portion of them. The desire to avoid pain is one of our first acquisitions. For the most part this avoidance is most marked when...