Word: sounding
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...least) lie within range of all voices. It is absurd to suppose that the occupants of the pews cannot sing, since it is from among them that the choir was organized, and since on any Class Day, a part only of them produce a greater volume of vocal sound than has been heard in Chapel within our recollection. Furthermore, all must and do admit that the service would be made much pleasanter by a general participation in the singing. Can it be that anything so contemptible as the fear of not doing the "proper thing" can keep men from such...
...sound of well-known feet...
...That don't sound just right either. I am a little mixed. I'll try an extemporary theme for English 5, or, better still, I'll repeat a little English; that will quiet my nerves. I'll begin with Milton's sonnet on a Freshman addicted to bragging...
...enlarged and better illustrated section of the present Gymnasium, which is so defective in plan, furnishing, and superintendence. If it may be permitted us to breathe a wish in this matter, it would be that a Professor of Hygiene might be appointed, - a man of courage as well as sound learning, - who should lecture to the students and be their adviser; a man who could advise the crews in training, and watch that no man overstepped the limits of his physical powers; a man who could tell the round-shouldered, hollow-chested, crooked-legged, weak-backed, how to remedy their...
...effect of the new system on the "middle class," the moderately good scholars, it is asserted that these men will be encouraged to take "soft" electives and to work for marks. This, apparently, is the only sound objection that has been offered; but the writer does not seem to realize that this is an evil, not of the new system merely, but of any honor-system whatever. So long as honors are offered men are likely to neglect their real gain in working for them. It must be borne in mind that an honor-system necessarily starts with the supposition...