Word: sound
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...important part of undergraduate activity and there is no reason why the large number of men at Harvard who desire to secure it should be denied the opportunity for lack of such a club. Our own traditions alone are enough to show that debating clubs can fill a sound and vigorous place in college life...
...opportunity is given the Freshman debating club, which has recently been organized, to establish debating again on a sound basis. It is important that the club should have broad aims, and should seek to develop its members in more than the mere parliamentary forms of public meetings. Debates with teams from other institutions ought, in such a club, to be made subordinate to the stimulation of an interest in debating for its own sake. As close a relationship as possible should be maintained with the departments of English and of public speaking, and the subjects discussed should occasionally at least...
Edwin Anderson Alderman, President of the University of Virginia; we rejoice to greet him here for his devotion to sound scholarship, for his genial Southern sympathy, and as head of a seat of learning to which the country owes much, and under his guidance will owe more...
...pray that I may be granted the wisdom, the strength and the patience which are needed in no common measure; that Harvard may stand in the future, as she has stood under the long line of my predecessors, for the development of true manhood, and for the advancement of sound learning; and that her sons may go forth with a chivalrous resolve that the world shall be better for the years they have spent within these walls...
...requires a mastery of something, acquired by continuous application. Every student ought to know in some subject what the ultimate sources of opinion are, and how they are handled by those who profess it. Only in this way is he likely to gain the solidity of thought that begets sound thinking. In short, he ought, so far as in him lies, to be both broad and profound...