Word: sound
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...play good baseball with the continual noise and din of systematic cheering. The very nature of the game should make this obvious to everyone. If a good play is made however, the spontaneous cheering should be seconded by effective leading, and should express with speed and strength of sound the approval and support of the University. Cheering of a good play which is perceptibly weaker in sound than that of the opponents is worse than none. Prolonged cheering, intended to drown out the other side, is bad sportsmanship, because confusing to the opposing team, and bad policy, because confusing...
...Bernbaum and W. A. Green grow positively heated over the ineptitudes of Boston, and other, critics of Ibsen and Shaw, and crush with grimness the wretched Grub Street on their wheel. Nay, more: they--especially Mr. Green--illustrate what journalistic criticism should be.--easily colloquial, anecdotal, popular, yet sound. Of course, the critics could rejoin that such writing means time and work: does the public want it badly enough to pay for it? Mr. Bernbaum, by the way, is depressed over the American public, is past even regretting the incapacity of Americans to appreciate Ibsen, to him "the greatest dramatist...
...school committee should have no more than ten members; preferably less than that number. Such a small board would be an efficient and compact body, with a sufficient variety of opinion, with added effectiveness for executive work and the working out of sound policies. The schools should not be representative of sectional interests, but should have as their unit, areas larger than Cambridge or than Boston, such as the metropolitan district, which forms a unit for the park and sewerage system, and should be unified for other purposes. The members of the board should be experts, as is the case...
...Physical Colloquium. The Transmission of Sound by Partitions, Professor Sabine. Jefferson Physical Laboratory, Room...
...Physical Colloquium. The Transmission of Sound by Partitions, Professor Sabine. Jefferson Physical Laboratory, Room...