Word: wonders
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Western young folks gulp minor poetry and major essays, studies, sketches, belles-lettres, no more than the snow leopard, the wildcat and lynx, can escape them. As the professor says, they "go after belles-lettres," do the Western young folk, but an East bound down by tradition will wonder why the professor didn't leave it to the furnace-man to express it in just that way. --The Boston Transcript...
...still living--some of them in a "retirement not unlike that of the Kaiser. As for the former, let us hope that it will throw some further light on the incident so brilliantly alluded to by the London Punch in "Dropping the Pilot". Does Wilhelm regret his action, we wonder, and if so will he have the courage to say so? Or will he "temper Justice with Mercy" (for himself)? "A penny for your thoughts" is proverbial; the Kaiser is to get many such ponnies. Let us hope he has many thoughts to offer in exchange...
...speculate on the old fellow's probable age and wonder vaguely why the University hasn't pensioned him long since. But he will not concern himself further. Most of us look with questioned approval on University business methods, but we all place implicit trust in the sense of justice of the authorities of a place like Harvard. And so the passing Harvard man will take it for granted that what is, is right, and the old man should be there working as he is day after...
...bewilderment. After all, human beings in general usually do what is expected of them, and Harvard or Yale men are no exceptions to the rule. For more years, perhaps, than we realize, it has been customary to say of a business or literary success that "it is no wonder; he went to "New Haven (or, Cambridge, as the case may be)". Vice versa, let the same man fall, and he is held up to view as a horrible example of wasted opportunities. The Harvard or Yale man who does anything out of the ordinary has about as much social, financial...
...learned editors, the center of American wisdom is not at Wellesley nor Barnard nor Vassar nor Smith--nay, not even at Radcliffe. But is it on the south-side of Plympton street in the town of Cambridge? I wonder. LEONARD J. SIFF...