Word: wonder
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...goals. Often these are specifically related to the changing role of women in modern life. "Am I intellectual?" and "How can I manage a family and a career?" are among the questions which may bother a thoughtful sophomore. A student who is not excited by her academic work may wonder whether differential calculus can have any relevance to the problems before...
...squash team was so hot yesterday that it's a wonder the courts didn't burn up. The Crimson blitzed Cornell 9-0, and all nine Harvard players won their matches by 3-0 shutouts...
Homesick for the Desert. All over the earth the quest has spread for undiscovered chapters of man's history. The wonder is that in the spate of technical activity a place remains for a pure surface man like Glueck. But he has earned that place many times over. After the partition of Palestine between Israel and Jordan in 1948, the Holy Land calmed down a bit and Glueck took stock. He liked the job of college president and had made a great success of it. Hebrew Union College is now a plush and prosperous institution. It has merged with...
This situation is not solely the fault of the teaching fellows. Graduate students who wish to teach must squeeze in pedagogical duties between the demands of their own courses, the pressure of a thesis, worries about future employment, and often, the cares of a new family. No wonder many of them much prefer hefty fellowships which relieve them of the need to teach. And no wonder both the graduate students and the departments concerned often regard teaching fellowships as a supplementary form of financial...
...Faculty person should be appointed, possibly with the title of assistant dean of teaching fellows, and that he should have supervision over all aspects of the teaching fellowship program. Given the pressure on senior Faculty members to teach, to conduct research, and to do outside work, it is no wonder that teaching fellows are often neglected...