Word: sounding
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...CRIMSON heartily endorses the principle of universal military training. whether the Chamberlain Bill contains the best plan for such a program is a question. However, the principle of the policy is sound, and therein lies the salvation of our people, and the only safe defence for our country. A long period of investigation must follow before a specific, detailed scheme of training can be formulated. Since the principle is right such a system of training must finally be evolved...
...also emphasized what was pointed out as one of the important results of the first examination, namely, that the physical examination enabled the examiner to convince a goodly number of students, who in some fashion or other conceived that they had organic defects, that in reality they were organically sound and normal...
...cent. of the Freshmen stood poorly and therefore might be regarded as possible candidates for the subsequent evils dependent upon faulty posture. Where-ever possible simple directions were given for the correction of this fault. On the other hand 88 per cent. of the Freshmen presented themselves with good sound feet. In this field it is easy to see a splendid opportunity for improving the physical equipment of the students...
...carried the interest of his students with him where-ever he chose to turn the shafts of his penetrating criticism. Ridicule was his favorite weapon for the banal and he had no mercy for the pious shams, the stuffed dummies that persist in all literature. Always he was sane, sound and exacting. Thousands of young Americans have left his classroom bearing the stamp of his taste and the stores of his learning...
...speech abounds in words which have survived only in a phrase, and which, if taken out of the phrase, sound unfamiliar. We all speak of illness as "sapping one's strength." That phrase comes from medieval warfare. The return of the present war to medieval siege tactics has brought "sapping" back to its original sense...