Word: wonderful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...decided that if I were to have breakfast and get to class, I had better rise. They say Professor Merriman gets awful mad if you come in even one minute late. His nickname, so one boy said--an upperclassman, I gathered, from his green bag,--is "Friskie." I wonder...
...wonder how many stirrers you will find...
...average Freshman who attended the meeting of undergraduate extra-curricular activities last night at Phillips Brooks House came away with anything less than a feeling of bewilderment, it is a matter of wonder. For after listening to the various exhortations to the brethren from personages ranging from the president of the Student Council right down the line to the head of the Lampoon, any Yardling might have thought that his life in college would be doomed to failure if he did not go out for at least half a dozen activities, and that at the earliest opportunity, say next Wednesday...
...have said, "The men who are sitting to the right and left of you today will not be here to graduate with you three years hence." But anyone who attended the introductory courses in the Law School yesterday morning must have been startled and abashed, and tempted to wonder at the new spirit of sweet reasonableness that pervaded the air. "Gentlemen," the new students were told. "You are a group of carefully selected applicants to the Law School. By a new system of assaying the legal aptitude of men before they enter school, it is possible to predict that...
...Will someone please explain to a bewildered layman what all this has to do with education?" asks Mr. Tunis in conclusion. "No wonder President Hutchins of Chicago observes that the American colleges today offer fresh air, green grass, good food and exercise, exactly the same as the resort hotels...