Word: soundness
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...suppose when finance takes industry under its wings it becomes an artful science. One of the chief functions of the Department which I administer is to open up the highways and byways of this artful science to the sunlight of public opinion, and so long as public opinion is sound and healthy it will kill off all the wriggling and squirming vermin that burrow through the moral fabric of our financial and political systems...
...Athletic Committee are feelingly, told, but the writer does not continue himself to adverse criticism-always an easy matter-he puts forward a plan for which he claims the striking advantage of doing away with the insufferable subscriptions and the placing of the financing of University athletics upon a sound basis...
...Altrocchi's "Two Recent Novels of Religion" is a praiseworthy effort in criticism, and the conclusion reached by the writer is a sound one. One feels that he is not quite able to express fully the effect produced upon him by the perusal of "The Christian" and "The Saint"; that he strives to render clearly the differing value of the two books, and does not quite succeed; but one also feels that he is on the right road and that with more experience of life and a larger knowledge of literature-for which he plainly has love-he will...
Dean Sabine, who probably knew Dean Shaler better than anyone else, spoke of his sterling qualities and lovable disposition. He was the most striking and influential man of the Faculty, and was respected by the President and the Corporation because of his sound financial sense. Besides being very well known to the student body, he was intimate with the graduates through his extensive travels...
...should convince him that the effort to influence politics for the benefit of people outside of office is more satisfactory than any work that can be done in office. Newspaper work of today is largely anonymous, and that fact is discouraging to those that would delight in the sound of their own names. But let a man select for his guiding thought the half cynical toast of old Teufelsdroch: Die Sacheder Armen in Gottes und Teufels Namen...