Word: sounding
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...most striking feature of the military mass meeting held in the Union last night was the serious and sober manner in which the eleven hundred undergraduates who crowded the Living Room received the sound advice of Dean Yeomans and President Lowell. In their two strong speeches the reasons for the University's action in regard to the R. O. T. C. in the present crisis was explained and the men were urged to vindicate that action by steady work through the special examination period as well as by cool and deliberate service after...
...have we heard from President Lowell in regard to the University's official course. Now that this country is actually at war undergraduates are considering the question of their own futures more seriously than ever before in their lives. For this reason the sound advice and new light that President Lowell will surely give is to be eagerly anticipated. From the very day that complications between Germany and the United States arose, President Lowell has worked ceaselessly to give Harvard the quickest and best facilities to turn out trained officers. In the beginning he waived many rules of the scholastic...
...democracy over autocracy and the spirit which makes war necessary. It has been in the past a question of how best to realize this goal. Now that our line of action has been irrevocably decided upon, we join in carrying it through, although, as unlikely as it may sound, should this country in the heat of battle so far fall from the standard set for it by President Wilson as to continue fighting needlessly from hatred or sheer unwillingness to desist, or as to enter upon schemes of conquest, then the spirit behind the Harvard Union for American Neutrality...
Every convenience has been furnished the employees. An elaborate rest room is provided for the girls in the telephone department, and they have their telephones in a special sound proof room. The messenger boys are also well looked out for in the new building and they have a library and a dressing room...
Professor Taussig is the right man for the task. For many years his sound thinking and big personality have commanded increasing respect not only in the ranks of theorists, but also among the practical business men and legislators of the day. It is quite natural that this great ability should be needed at Washington in the perplexing decade ahead. When his national service is completed we sincerely hope that he will return to take up his old position as a member of the Faculty and brilliant expounder of economic principles...