Word: soundingly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...present hubbub, instigated at the College of the City of New York at the editor of "Campus", the college paper, in an attempt to sound undergraduate opinion on the presence in the curriculum of the course in military science, culminates today and tomorrow in a ballot of the college by the Student Council. In this way the advocates of the abolition of this course hope to present sufficient undergraduate sentiment opposing its continuance to convince the faculty that it should be removed...
...Brooms. The theme of a man who takes over his father's business does not sound immensely novel. Of course he makes a success of it. A touch of satire on the very banality of the story was required. This the film factory omitted. Therefore the picture lacks entertainment...
...feed, clothe herself, or otherwise care for her own personal needs. The only exercise she ever got was when she was placed on the floor when the weather was warm and allowed to roll around. She couldn't talk?the only time I ever heard her utter a vocal sound was once when she fell on a hot furnace grating. Then she uttered a sort of animal sound. She was absolutely helpless...
Significance. Here is art on a major scale. As characters, these Germans stand in their own right. As a human document, that is, emotionally, the book is unwaveringly valid. It is also a sound social contribution, bringing progress and tradition into violent conflict. Historically it is significant that Manhattan has been chronicled again by one of her stoutest-hearted inhabitants...
This experiment proceeds upon an assumption which, though granted tentatively by a liberal faculty, must still be regarded as no more than an assumption: namely, that students actually have some understanding of the ends toward which their education is directed, and, moreover, that they possess some faculty for sound criticism of the means employed to attain those ends...