Word: wonder
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...world should force a man to realize what a small amount the life of the greatest man plays in the final total. Many men come to Cambridge with an acute perception of their own-transcendent ability. Many men leave the University with an inflated estimate of their own wonder-working skill, but as long as there hangs in the background of their minds a recollection of the thousands who have felt exactly as they feel, as long as they remember that, strangely enough, the world originated in Missouri, as long as they appreciate the exquisite comedy of Self...
...delightful blonde two seats to the left to have a most ingratiating smile. We can picture the amorous flirtation between freshmen in Psychology A, ripening four years later into a romantic courtship between fellow classmates in the "Education of the Child." With beatific dreams of languorous "co-eds," we wonder why we have failed to welcome women students long, long...
Instead of the clinking of glasses, there is the clicking of chips. The pleasant gurgle of heavenly liquids gives way to a soft chant of "come 'leven" and rumbling of ivory over wood. Pay nineteen! We wonder if this change has been all for the good. This new method of removing undergraduate inhibitions has certain disadvantages over the old. "A big head is better than an empty purse" is attributed to Epictetus. The road to freedom from the worries of exams and cuts is much smoother when it runs through fragrant vineyards than when it winds across the chequered fields...
...find out more about that, you must ask Freud, who, no doubt, knows more about fairy tales than most of us. . ." I suppose that we may soon overhear from the nursery, "Now, Mary, stop crying, and mama'll read you some pretty stories out of the Satyricon." Incidentally, I wonder what complex led Mr. Train to use "woken" as a past participle...
...poets represented in this issue are impressive numerically at least. Mr. Cowley's "Eighteenth Century Sonnet," intentionally unorthodox in form, is the most interesting and individual of the poems. I wonder why it is secreted at the very end of the number. Of the five sonnets, Mr. Hull's "To a Cat" and the sestet of Mr. Cabot's "Late Spring" stand out as something more than a succession of words arranged with varying skill in a predetermined pattern. Mr. Morrison's "Song" contains two or three significant lines and flows along sonorously. In "Lines," Mr. Behn has conveyed...