Word: sounding
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...approved by the College. In these schools the College would have supervision over the courses and in general over the methods of instruction, and could prevent abuse of privilege by holding in reserve the right of examination. By these means there would be a chance of securing a sound education for boys, and so of leaving the College somewhat more free in the exercise of its ideal functions...
...Literature is that of Gaspary (2 vols., 8vo.) either in the original German, or in the Italian translation. Bartoli's Storia della Leteratura Italiana, 6 vols., 12mo., the last vol. published in 1889, may also be recommended, but it is diffuse and the judgement of the author is less sound than that of Gaspary...
...body, back Mr. Watson, the undergraduates must do the same. Entire confidence, one in the other, we in Mr. Watson and his methods, Mr. Watson in us and our skill as oarsmen, is necessary and must be had, that rowing may once more be established upon the sound basis where it stood when Mr. Watson was at the helm before...
...introduction to the study of Shakspere. We are pleased to find in it none of the absurdities of the "inductive" school of criticism, which makes what should be a literary work seem like a text-book on graphic algebra or spherical geometry. The method here is absolutely sane and sound, the style is lucidity itself, fact is everywhere kept clear from inference, and there is no gush. There is not a silly sentence in the book. What reader of Dowden or Fleay can say that...
...body of students or else in refusing to grant it, to refuse on the ground that a more intimate knowledge of the matter in hand would reverse the opinion of the signers of this request. Having taken the latter course, they owe to their constituency an explanation sufficiently sound to convert the signers of the remonstrance. Should they refuse to make this explanation, the directors would prove themselves disloyal to the men who have placed them in office...