Word: soundness
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...interior there will be adopted the latest ideas in library construction, cork floors being laid over concrete to doaden the sound. The elevator doors will be of metal and the others of wood. On the first floor there will be telephone booths for the use of patrons of the library, built in as part of the building. It may be said that the specifications for the contract call for the last word in library construction, and Harvard may well feel proud of its million-dollar library made possible through the munificence of Mrs George D. Widener of Philadelphia
...freshmen before that date. The men will begin practice in the tank and on the machines, and the coaching will be concentrated on the inboard work of the men. The English style of stroke, adopted last year, will again be used. For the purpose of putting the oarsmen in sound, physical condition, setting-up exercises and long, slow runs will from a part of the early training. Of last year's crew, seven men are again available, Captain Remeyn being the only member of the eight to graduate. Two members of the our-oar crew also eligible this year...
...stand-patter,--a graceful statement of well worn and out worn Republican platitudes by ex-Governor Long. There is also, just why one does not know, in this otherwise admirably serious and pertinent number a lurid word collection from the pen of Mr. Thomas W. Lawson, chiefly sound and fury signifying nothing. Ferhaps the article is offered as material for instructors in English A, who may utilize it to show those who would write English how not to do it. The two concluding numbers of the issue are in extra political fields, one by Winthrop A. Hamlin...
...urging respect for standards. The growing tyranny of external social standards, which the writer deplores, has been accompanied in great measure by indifference, on the part of both old and young, to traditional intellectual standards which society once imposed. It is much harder to awaken interest in certain sound ideals of culture and training than in the ideals of public service which the editorial writer so properly urges. But perhaps a new generation, in reacting against the respectability of the moment, will bring back something like the older respectability that has passed away...
...evening, some enterprising vendor has estimated our enthusiasm over the Princeton game in terms of dollars and cents and has introduced into our midst a devilish device for producing a diabolical din. When used in sufficient number these instruments of noise, known as "clappers", are capable of producing enough sound to drown out the best organized cheering or the most effective singing. They are the type of noise-producer that a great crowd going to a professional baseball game desires to employ to "rattle" the opposing pitcher and to give the favorite team an unfair advantage. In other words, "clappers...