Word: wondere
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...ordering and correlating his courses, at giving unity to his program of studies. For two years the teacher makes the class recite in unison their A B C's and two years he turns them loose in the library to read anything they may fancy. Is it any wonder that the undergraduate, after two years in which he has been allowed no choice at all, is unable to make good use of the unlimited choice that is suddenly thrust upon him? Is it any wonder that his choice of these last two years, which should be the perfect crown...
Sirs : Thank you for the copy of TIME. I find after looking it over that it isn't The Paper for me. . . . I want to find one that points out both good and bad business. I wonder if such a magazine exists some times. Do you know of any Editor who is sufficiently intelligent and far enough advanced to be able to tell good work from bad, who endeavors to list both kinds that are done in the United States and other countries ? A classified page of good and bad business. Something like classified advertising ? It seems...
Where do most Senators go from the Senate? People often wonder. Some, of course, stay in the public-eye?Atlee Pomerene of Ohio by being oil scandals lawyer (see p. 12); Elihu Root by continuing as a patriarch of the bar; Chauncey Depew by becoming a nonagenarian. Others become somewhat obscure. James Duval Phelan is an opulent San Francisco booster & developer. Magnus Johnson still farms the Minnesota dirt whence sprouted his short fame. Dr. Irwin France of Maryland travels and keeps up his interest in Guernsey cows. Truman Handy Newberry of Michigan keeps up his club memberships, helps direct banks...
...season distinguished for the dullness of its news, when the reception of Miss Elder by the Portuguese authorities and the perennial vagaries of Prince Carol hold the headlines, it is small wonder that newspapers seize upon the information that Vassar seniors are building for themselves a smoking room. The first, and possibly the most logical comment, is "what of it?" On closer examination, however, a few quirks of the feminine mind appear; the room, to be luxuriously equipped by the smoking seniors, is for their use alone; no members of the lower classes, no guests, no masculine visitors. Well...
Casting aside the superficial resemblance of such privacy to that of an opium den, one may wonder at it nevertheless. Smoking, among men atleast, depends for its existence upon its sociability; if it were considered proper to smoke only in absolute privacy the habit would soon disappear. Nor is the masculine smoking room usually a place of retreat from the world: it is usually one of hospitality, if not downright conviviality. To an old story, however, it will now be necessary to make an addition. The Princeton man lights first your cigarette and then his; the Yale man lights first...