Word: soundness
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...applies in attack. With a quick-starting backfield that is coming in standing up, it is not necessary to rub your opponent in the dirt. A quick thrust to throw him out of the play and leave the offensive forward free to go through to the secondary is the sound method...
...objection of many that the young man with a college education will find farm life unattractive is not intrinsically sound. Naturally, higher education should develop an appreciation of the conveniences of civilization, aesthetic qualities, and a desire for a healthy social life. But if these things are not found in the country it is due more often to a lack of initiative and leadership than to an inherent defect in farm life. By the leadership of one man in a community, a cooperative effort to secure better educational conditions, and a stimulation of organized recreation and social life, would...
...colleges and preparatory schools providing military training--we sincerely hope it is not--but this seems all the more reason for establishing a University battalion to see if we cannot more nearly approach that degree of efficiency which will satisfy the General Staff. And since, in addition to a sound physique and a knowledge of chemistry, emphasized by Dr. Sargent, it is necessary for an efficient officer to be versed in drill regulations, why not supplement our other training by work in the University Battalion...
...hearted thing that he ever does, it is because this play is at present his best substitute for "experience," and for that kind of "reality" which pain and hard training rub in. I take the development of athletics as a sign that the instincts of American college students are sound; that they have a healthy appetite for exertion, teamwork, common service, pain and danger. But nobody pretends that the present situation in athletics is right, for the student body as a whole...
...Graduate '03," who seems to hesitate to reveal his identity lest he advertise the fact that slumber is more important to him than accomplishment, should remember that there are others who find the twenty-four hours all too few for the work of life, and welcome the sound of the 7 o'clock bell. By all means let it continue to ring. EDMUND A. WHITMAN...