Word: sounded
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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Hark to the sound of tramping feet...
...debating. Rather than ponder subjects of international policy or political significance, the club would do well to discuss subjects of college importance. Such a program would help in forming an intelligent public opinion and it would bring out those men who can get up on their feet and talk sound sense in a convincing way without preparation...
...matter how sound may be the basis of the Council as regards constitutionality, it will fail to be effective unless it is thoroughly representative of all the undergraduates. The constitution has provided for this admirably, but even the constitution is helpless in bringing it about unless the men turn out to vote. No written document can elect the right men to serve on a board of this or any other kind--it is a matter for every man in the University to take a hand in and see to it that those men are elected to whom they would most...
...first essential for successful competition is a sound body, and the great danger that threatens it is the abundance of vicious temptation to which men of Harvard, as of every other college, are exposed. It is the most serious danger in that it may defeat the whole object of life; through it comes the only absolute ruin that can come to educated men. Work is the great safe-guard against evil thoughts and evil passions, and occupation in hard work, hard play, or the moderate enjoyment of all innocent pleasures is the best way of crowding out vice...
...annual Northfield Conference, hold at East Northfield, in Northern Massachusetts, aims to create in every man who attends a sound mind in a sound body. With this object in view, it provides for mental, spiritual and bodily exercise. One of the really great endowments that Northfield hands down lies in the strong friendships that are formed there. For men of common interest in the fundamental things of life come together in a delightfully informal manner and find in each other characteristics that make for strong and permanent friendship. Perhaps the strongest impression one receives, however, is that life must...