Word: sound
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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This advice is also sound in its application to the undergraduates of the University. The R. O. T. C. should take precedence over other outside military training corps, not alone because of its obvious advantages but because it is the official Harvard organization and by enlisting in it the undergraduate does not separate himself from the academic side of the University until it is absolutely necessary. We may rely on General Wood to tell us when that time has come...
...made free to wage "an intelligent warfare." Aside from statements like the following: "It is impossible to cultivate a soldierly posture without feeling the dignity of one's manhood," which he will pardon me for calling a little absurd--Mr. Allport's article seems to me extremely sound and valuable...
...Bastian Lepage's sickly painting in the Metropolitan Museum. She was simply a innocent and gallant girl who said her prayers and did her duty even when it called on her to rescue a nation and die an abominable death. Up to this point, Mme. Farrar's creation is sound and historically accurate. And altogether, it may be said that most of the shocking details of the film may be laid on the adapter and not on the star...
...taken for granted that the subject would be discussed with sobriety, and one notes with satisfaction the calmness, restraint and real disposition to thoughtfulness on the part of the contributors. At least one of the war articles--that of Mr. Fisher, on "Our Military Problem"--shows considerable information and sound reasoning. The style is straight-forward and vigorous, and whether the conclusion is right or wrong, the argument is of a kind that deserves a hearing. "The Verge of War," by Mr. Rogers, is in the main a sober account of the necessities of the present situation. It is marred...
...Hillyer's reverie on an Elizabethan May-Day is cleverly contrived, with its pleasant descriptions and its snatches of old songs. Some of the reflections in the earlier part have a modern sound, and are not altogether of a piece with the rest. But we are doubtless to understand that the speaker at the outset is Robert Hillyer, who is only gradually merged, in the course of the vision, into William Shakespere...