Word: sound
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...fight is going on. The various debating societies are now offering resolutions in support of Lord Salisbury's ministry, and the undergraduate politicians are exercising their oratorical powers in mimic Parliamentary contests. One man, who signs himself "Conservative," writes in the Review a vigorous appeal to all holders of sound political opinions to try to influence by direct arguments the wayward followers of the Liberal ministry. He urges the "extreme importance of doing everything in their power to further the good cause...
...lays aside his reasoning powers, and takes without question the dictum of his teacher, is the one who learns to read and spell more readily. There is a great strain upon the powers of memorizing at the expense of everything else. Several letters stand for one sound and vice versa. There are many silent letters and syllables, and altogether the English language is the worst constructed of any now in existence, except, perhaps, that of the heathen Chinee. An Italian school-boy learns to read Italian in a little over nine hundred hours, while it takes the average English...
...discarded it, adopting grading by classes. Why is Harvard so backward? Why is it that this college dedicated to truth clings with such tenacity to an outgrown institution? The students should raise a voice condemning this evil. And this voice should be heard in the conference with no uncertain sound. The resolution which was tabled expressing a foregone conclusion, should have been passed, and ought certainly to be passed at the next meeting. With this expression of student opinion, the need of a change will be felt more strongly in the faculty, and a change may thereby be hastened...
...suddenly, in the midst of the gloom, there came a sound that startled the weary scribes, and they saw among them a familiar figure...
Warren S. Yates, Yale, '87, perished on Long Island Sound Thanksgiving Day. He was blown out into the sound in an open boat and died from exposure...