Word: wander
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Likewise the Law School has kept a hands-off policy towards the undergraduate body. At present the neophyte gets no inkling of what subjects are of value in preparation for life at the bar, and students are allowed to wander in the college wilderness without the guidance that would help them immeasurably when once they enter the professional division. Although rigorous pre-legal requirements should not be laid down, lest they limit too strictly the freedom of choice in college, the school should not shirk the responsibility of pointing out the undergraduate courses that form a valuable introduction...
...estimated that well over 100,000 persons visited the University, many of them preferring to wander about at leisure on various pilgrimages of self-discovery...
...Gloucester, Mass. for a summer cruise to the Azores and around Cape Horn sailed the 90-ft, schooner Wander Bird, with a professional captain, a crew of 13 schoolboys, including 16-year-old John Morgan, grandson of Banker J. P. Morgan...
...soon I, standing and kneeling so long, to get very fidgety and my eyes did wander; and was much surprised to see----whom I have not seen in a long time. How softly she sang; 'twas religion to see her. Anon I to say good morning and she too was surprised to see me here. And did ask was I not Presbyterian or Unitarian. I had to confess I was a Vegetarian but like a good service anywhere...
...inveterate reader of newspapers who lived in three centuries might have compiled." In burrowing his way from 1690, when the first U. S. newspaper was published, to the War, Laurence Greene's greatest difficulty was to stick to the red-letter historical events, avoid the temptation to wander down fascinating journalistic bypaths. Last week Laurence Greene's historical newspaper scrapbook, America Goes to Press* was published. Of his collection of such classic U. S. front-page stones as the Battle of Trenton, Lee's Surrender at Appomattox, the Chicago Fire, the Custer Massacre, Author Greene explains: "Ours...