Word: wonder
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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After the Princeton game February 7, the thought occurred to me that our team is in a very critical situation. I began to wonder how long any students of the University could continue to apathetically accept defeat after defeat. I, for one, am becoming disturbed. For the team to go on this way is ridiculous. Undoubtedly something must be done. Some say it is mainly the fault of our coach. I do not know if that is the cause but, if it is, I say fire him. Some say our competition is too strong...
...American Legion meeting in Washington, Admiral William Fechteler, Chief of Naval Operations, commented on some of his recent reading. Herman Wouk's The Caine Mutiny. Said the Old Sea Dog: "It's a hell of a good yarn, but I often wonder how one Naval Reserve officer could have collected in two years in one little ship all the screwballs I have known in my 30 years in the Navy...
...demoralizing effect. One paragraph "notes" Vincent's praise of the Chinese communists "at a time when it was the declared and established policy of the United States to support Chiang Kai-Shek's government." Without clarification, the meaning of this statement is obscure and highly disturbing. Foreign Service officers wonder whether the Board is accusing Vincent of actively pursuing a contradictory policy, or whether "declared and established policy" means a party line with which private disagreement is suspect. As long as this is unexplained, any foreign officer must question the extent of his freedom to interpret events...
...well vegetate a good deal longer. Miles has wrapped himself in his Senior Tutor job, which calls on both his administrational and social skills. Some wonder how Miles will be able to discipline his student companions, but they forget that friendship leads to cooperation which often makes discipline unneeded. And it Miles can operate deanery this way, he will go far toward being the kind of Senior Tutor the Bender Report desired. MUTON S. GWIRTZMAN
...little wonder that the Dining Halls wished to avoid publicity on the sign-off fiasco. It is arbitrary, needless, and inequitable. Anyone who wished to travel home on long weekends, or leave College after his last spring exam, or get a change of atmosphere between terms faces culinary double jeopardy. Unless, of course, he takes along box lunches...