Word: sound
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...which its worthy president has made in delivering addresses before the students. Twice last spring he spoke on subjects vitally connected with college life. His talk on a choice of elective studies in college will ever be remembered by those who heard it. It was a talk pregnant with sound common sense and was of inestimable value to everyone in selecting such courses as would be of the greatest value to him in after life. President Eliot is a man of ideas. Whatever he may have to say upon a subject will be well worth listening to, and every...
...attend the game and support the nine in a manner befitting its deserts, and when the game is finished and the victory ours, let there go up from old Holmes a shout which will show that Harvard "spirit" is not yet dead. But one word,- let not a sound escape at an opponent's error, but let there be applause for good plays on either side. This will be done; there is no need of our giving such gratuitious warning, for Harvard is famed for her generous treatment of visiting clubs...
...time-honored English universities, instead of holding up an ideal of sound learning and disinterested study, and checking the present Chinese current of popular belief, have degraded into mere examining machines. In the place of the calm pursuit of knowledge and the encouragement of original research, we have the hot competition of slaving undergraduates-for students we cannot call them,-who are taught that learning is of no value except in so far as it brings profit to themselves. Many of the mischievours results of the examination-system at these "ancient seats of learning," though now of cram, have already...
Thanks to the excellent management, everything passed off splendidly, and a more enjoyable time could scarcely be imagined. The request of Manager Claflin in regard to crackers and rockets was strictly obeyed, the sound of but one bunch of crackers being heard during the entire evening...
...with a short sketch of the stormy and unhappy life of the greatest of all musical geniuses,- his unhappy boyhood, and still more miserable manhood, embittered by the heartless conduct of his nearest relations, and by that premature deafness which shut him out from all the world of musical sound. Several interesting anecdotes were given of his eccentric habits. In his works he carried the art of music to its highest perfection, excelling in every branch. In orchestral music, especially, he holds absolute pre-eminence. The idea, however, that Beethoven had worked out the view of purely instrumental music, tacitly...