Word: loudnesses
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...visions of compulsory chapel, oral examinations, concentration and distribution and other features of Cambridge life which we would like to avoid--although we may at heart know some of them to be valuable. There has been a time when the cry against the possibility of compulsory exercise was loud and long, but we have come to believe that a partial adoption of this system is the one way to further the bodily development of the college...
...Vesle for 10 days more. Yes, I think that's a pretty good record for a regiment not thirteen months old, and in their first fight, too--a pretty good record and one we're all proud of, too. But I mustn't blow our horn too loud--you'll think the old fighting 38th is patting itself on the back too strong...
...such a course is it not true that the University would be merely renewing a very old Harvard tradition? At any event, the story has often been heard that the time of the call to morning prayers was determined there, some generations ago, by loud ringing of the chapel bell at the precise moment when the undergraduate, to whom the duty was assigned, found it possible to read, by the advancing light of day, the print of a newspaper officially approved for this delicate test. That was daylight-saving with a vengeance. --Boston Transcript...
...scene was set for what followed. When the current grounded, a loud report was heard and the people were blinded by a sudden flare, only to find themselves in darkness. Moments of hysteria were inevitable...
...ghastly and horrible. We were in front of the English batteries and could hear the English shells go singing and hurtling through the air over our heads, and the regular answer of the German sheels, seeking out the English batteries, whining past us and then exploding with a loud report, throwing high into the air great columns of earth and smoke. Further and further we made our way up towards the front line trenches; finally at a point under almost constant shellfire we found a little Y. M. C. A. dugout. It was very filthy and small, with almost...