Word: sounded
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...devise a machinery of academic administration which is adjusted to the capacity and temper of the undergraduates with which it must deal. The student body is quite naturally inclined to place an estimate of higher worth on that capacity than does the faculty. But both will accept as psychologically sound the observation that the average student will do no or little scholastic work for which he receives no or little official credit. It is because of this complex that the tutorial system can not develop properly at present; and it is this same psychology which must be used...
...raucous clanging of a hurry bell and the road of a high powered motor broke the accustomed quiet of the noon hour in the Yard yesterday. A considerable number of the classroom exodus turned at the sound and witnessed the arrival of a large red ambulance which came to an auspicious stop before Thayer Hall...
...three people on the stage? husband, wife, lover. He caused the husband to discover the truth of the triangle. He favored the wife with a justification. He made both the men look rather foolish. He had the sound sincerity to make the wife turn them both down...
...Stravinsky seated himself at the piano, played for the first time in Manhattan his Concerto for Piano and Wind Orchestra. "It is," he had explained beforehand to pressmen, "quite in the style of the 17th Century." With amazing virtuosity, his quick fingers manipulated cacophonies; from the tumbled wrack of sound arose the chilled phantoms of dead melodies, smelling still of death-wraiths of Handel, Liszt, Bach, Schumann-jerked on the wires of that thundergod of ghosts, Stravinsky. So far the composer has allowed no one else to play the work in public. Listeners were astounded; critics were baffled. Said Critic...
...meet with hearty sympathy at Harvard. It clearly recognizes that freedom and the ideal of a liberal education are the goals toward which the students of the Eastern universities must strive. It is far from radical; ardent reformers will criticize it for that reason. It does, however, offer a sound liberal program whose merit lies in the fact that it can--and ought--to be carried...