Word: wonders
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Bulletin, Raphael Demos, Lecturer on Philosophy at that haven of intellect, discusses "Some Aspects of a Liberal Education." Since he is striving after clarification rather than novelty, his maxims, isolated in italic type, have a familiar ring. "The aim of a liberal education is to arouse the sense of wonder," he says. "The aim of education is to break the stranglehold of the present." "And the aim of a liberal education is to arouse the young man to a keener awareness." To the common conception of liberal education as a conspiracy to arouse the sense of wonder...
...bungling amateurs compared with their big-brained relative, man. . . . For untold millions of years the long line of vertebrates that led toward man was of unblushing thieves and robbers. Even now, the human face beneath its smiling mask carries the old mammalian trap set with sharp teeth. ... No wonder we suffer from grafters, gunmen and racketeers. The wonder is, not that so many of us find ourselves in prison, but that any of us have learned to keep out. "As soon as apes began to go in families and hordes . . . unselfishness of mothers, devotion of fathers and disinterestedness of friends...
Died, William Jacob Holland, 84. butterfly man, director emeritus of Carnegie Institute; of a stroke; in Pittsburgh. Author (the definitive Butterfly Book), paleontologist (specialties: diplodocus, dinosaur), zoologist, explorer, museum administration expert, artist, teacher, clergyman, "he knew everything about so many things that [he] . . . may well cause special wonder...
...take those boys in 1.42, how they get any work done is beyond me, but I guess it isn't beyond the Dean. I happened to see his marks the other day, and it's a wonder he's still here. Why, if Alec, he's my oldest, just 14; if Alec ever brought home such marks from school, I know what he'd get and get it fast. Now, take last year, I was in one of the Freshman dormitories in the Yard, and those boys never went out at all. My, they were such nice young fellows always...
...responsible for her proficiency in heterogeneous sports. Her manager and coach, Melvin J. McCombs, is director of athletics for Dallas Employers' Casualty Co. Her father. Ole Didrikson, is Scandinavian, a onetime sailor. Beyond a tendency to use explicit language and to despise small girls who play with dolls, Wonder Girl Didrikson's demeanor during intervals between her physical exertions is not unfeminine. She likes to cook, dance, sew. Last year she constructed for herself a box-plaited dress. It won first prize at the Texas State Fair...