Word: sound
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...release. The old man after some delay, gives him the money. Not satisfied with this he tells Geronte that his life is in danger from brigands, and induces him to enter a sack for protection Scapin then imitates the noises of brigands and gives the old man a sound drubbing. The money is given to the young men and Leandre is enabled to marry. The two young men then meet their fathers; Zerbinette is discovered to be the daughter of Argante, and Geronte becomes reconciled to his son's marriage. Scapin pretends that he is dying and so obtains forgiveness...
...CRIMSON holds fast to the belief that the object of a college course is a sound mind in a sound body. Attention can be devoted wholly to developing neither one with advantage to the individual. Balance is essential in this as in all other things. Looking at the matter from a point of view given by athletics, the editorial pointed out the possibility of undue mental work, but we should be quite as earnest, in looking at the matter from the point of view given by studies, to urge the possibility of undue devotion to athletics...
...Secretary Carlisle's plan for a circulating medium sound...
...Adee '95, of Barstow-on-the-Sound, N. Y., quarterback, prepared at Harrington School. He has not played on the 'varsity before. Age 20, height 5 ft. 8 in., weight...
...chiefly deserve to be read in any foreign language, it is wise to translate consciously and in words as we read. There is no such help to a fuller mastery of our vernacular. It compels us to such a choosing and testing, to such a nice discrimination of sound, propriety, position, and shade of meaning, that we now first learn the secret of the words we have been using or misusing all our lives, and are gradually made aware that to set forth even the plainest matter, as it should be set forth, is not only a very difficult thing...