Word: soundingly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Sticking close to the ideal of giving the students a broad education, the College prohibits undergraduates from taking courses offered by the Graduate School of Engineering on the grounds they are of too practical a nature. The principle behind the rule is certainly sound, but in some cases exceptions might well be made. Every other department in the College opens its graduate courses to well qualified students, and Engineering Sciences should do the same, at least allowing honors candidates credit for one or two. In recent years two or three Undergraduates, having got ahead in their course requirements, have taken...
...University is suffering from an extremely restricted budget and its amount of loose funds is almost negligible. In his message to the Board of Overseers Mr. Conant said plainly that the Corporation unanimously feel that the 1936 ruling limiting the number of instructors to be promoted in Economics was "sound at the time" and that later developments "confirmed the wisdom and necessity of that ruling...
...basement rooms comprising the Service contain a complete movie laboratory with equipment for projecting, editing, titling, printing, and developing both 16mm, and 35mm. film--sound as well as silent. About 650 reels are projected each year for the University, especially in scientific courses like Biology, Engineering, and Psychology. In addition, the Services shows the French films and those of the Harvard Film Society, and handles the evening shows for the Geographical Institute...
...Mint Canyon, Calif, one day last week, Mrs. Clara Weiss's chickens and turkeys were thrown into panic by a huge bird which roared across the henyard only a few feet above the ground. Few minutes later, Mrs. Weiss heard a "terrible clattering sound." The bird, an $80,000 Lockheed 14, had perched violently on the crest of 3,000-ft. Mount Stroh, had carried nine to their deaths...
...would like to see more of Paderewski and less of the rest of the picture. Particularly interesting are close-ups of the pianist's hands, as he plays his Minuet in G, and selections from Lizst, Chopin, and Beethoven. The exquisite tone of Paderewski's music survives the sound-reproduction in only fair shape...