Word: sounding
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...given to physical exercises and out-of-door sports at the University. Our four months of winter are a natural defence against exaggeration in this direction. It is much to be wished that our hardest-working students should come to believe, and to practise upon the belief, that a sound and vigorous body is in most cases indispensable to success in any active form of intellectual life...
...number of the Yale Lit. is by far the best of our exchanges this week, and is really excellent. The leader on "Some Books" is well written and contains much sound common-sense. "The Light-Keeper's Story" is an interesting and thrilling tale, and altogether a very creditable production. Want of space prevents us from noticing the other articles, but they are all good. The only criticism we have to make on the Lit. is the insertion of so many baseball scores and so much society news. Why not leave such things as these for the Courant and Record...
...student's real acquirements; but so long as he is required, in order to test the faithful performance of duty, to submit to examinations, upon the result of which college rank is made to depend, such examinations should be fair and impartial, and they should be based upon sound, well-regulated general principles, rather than the arbitrary and fanciful theories of each individual instructor...
...should think you did," said the Bulletin Board. "You sound like a death-tolling when you're first rung...
Before we had finished the meal the boy had asked me about my collar and my waistcoat, and as I pride myself on the modesty of my dress, these little attentions on his part did not increase my love and affection for the child. I have always admired the sound common-sense of the old gentleman who, when asked if he liked children, said he was very fond of them in Bougereau...