Word: wondere
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...knowing the college I mean knowing the men who run it, within and without, undergraduate leaders of the various activities and members of the faculty and administrators of the several departments; I mean knowing the how and the why of all that goes on in regard to Harvard. I wonder how many undergraduates have a very definite idea of what President Lowell is striving to attain, of the building program, of the reason why it is so necessary to widen Holyoke Street, of the purpose of the tutorial system or of divisional examinations or of the Union...
...property. It took possession temporarily and under conditions that have long since passed away. Its handling has been subject to serious abuses and probable corruption. The time has come to restore this property to its rightful owners. Meanwhile, the critics of American democracy will be left to wonder at the elephantine slowness with which the public conscience is aroused to act in manifest cases of injustice...
...been reading Briggs. Not our own, you know, the funny one. I wonder could you tell me what a professor thinks about Inky Fingers...
Doctor Samuel Johnson, that eminent pragmatist, never took off his shoes and danced on a wire. Had he done so, he well knew, he would have given any alert dog the opportunity of pontifying of him, as he once did of a dancing canine. "The wonder is not that he should do it badly, but that he should do it at all." Fearful of becoming the butt of such quadrupedantry, the wise Dr. Johnson abjured wires, seldom removed his shoes.* Not so cautious was Roger Fry, proclaimed by many educated people to be the best Art critic in the world...
...ideal of a wellbalancd life, renounce athletics, social service, a hundred activities--even pleasure--for a selfish desire for classroom preeminence, deny the principle of reciprocity, and never once feel that they owe some self sacrificing service to the college which is doing much for them. Is it any wonder that the first and larger group feels some contempt for this type of student and this kind of scholastic activity...