Word: sound
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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After the morning races, the trains will return at once to New London, and the entire party will board the steamer "Chester W. Chapin," where luncheon will be served. A short sail will be taken up the sound, the boat returning at 2.30 o'clock, and the passengers boarding the observation trains for the final race...
Professor Lyan's work with ultra-violet rays, and Professor Sabine's investigation of the transmission of sound, and its applications to building materials are among the many important researches going on. At present, there are more than a score of pieces of investigation in progress in the Jefferson Laboratory, with many more in the Cruft. Work so brilliant and of so advanced a nature merits the recognition and approbation of the University in general...
...repeat the sound advice given by Major Higginson at last year's mass meeting,--"Keep your shirt...
...scientific study of international affairs. Those attending the conference should start with no presuppositions other than a sincere desire to discover the true causes for the present war and the means of averting similar conflicts in the future. Working on these premises, under the leadership of such sound thinkers as have, agreed to attend the meetings, some progress at least should be made toward the discovery of means for the peaceful settlement of international disputes. Of hardly secondary importance to agreement upon the form which the promotion of international justice and world organization should take, is the necessity for educating...
...last decade. Moreover, the value of money has been diminishing. A Harvard education costs the University more than it' did formerly; and it is only just that the students should bear a part of this additional expense. The increase in tuition will put the University on a sound financial basis; and gifts may now be used for further improvements. Both undergraduates and graduates should feel that only a stern necessity led to the step, and should acquiesce cheerfully. The very fact that the Corporation has passed such an "unpopular" measure is the best guarantee that there was no other...