Word: wonders
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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After a few weeks of college, Freshmen usually wonder if they will ever again at one period receive so much gratuitous advice. When they are about to graduate they realize that once again and for the last time, the world has stopped on its way to tell them what is expected of them. The Class of 1921 has not failed to receive its due quota of advice. Collectively and individually the seniors have been warned, exhorted and directed -- as is the custom...
...slush fund", and are plying their trade with all the gusto of professional politicians. There will be "great doin's" in Denver before long. Factional strife was never so ominous as at present. Labor has had pretty much its own way of late years; one begins to wonder whether the discordant units which make up the A. F. of L. can much longer work in close harmony...
...advantages offered by the Appointment Office, and are preparing to become active producers in the marts of the business world, the rest of us are apt to watch them with a feeling of envy. Lower-classmen, Freshmen especially, look ahead two or three more years of college, and wonder just how much it will mean to them. The possibility that Edison may be right occurs to them perhaps. At any rate there is a great deal of talk about "not coming back." "Spring fever becomes an epidemic...
...uncertain thing. One sort might appeal to one board and not at all to another; or if a standard were hit upon, would not the applicants who passed be very much of the same type? How would the examiners determine exactly for what they were seeking? And we wonder whether it would be assumed by those whose "personality" gained them an entrance to college that those who had been admitted on the basis of scholarship had no personality. Perhaps there would be those who would feel so confident of their power to charm the admittance boards that they would consider...
...There does not seem to be a lack of customers who seek knowledge, either among the young who are fortunate enough to be able to go and get it, or among the old who have it sent to them. The self-made man who would criticise college training must wonder if there is not a good reason for the existence of such a great student body in this country...