Word: wonders
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...tune of $300 a week, when any institution or individual whose name is at all well known hastens to cash in on that notoriety, it is not surprising to learn that the tentacles of commercialism have reached out towards Harvard's Commencement activities. With a sense of mild wonder mingled with relief the CRIMSON learns from the chairman of the reunion committee of a recent class, which shall not be named, that he has been unable to secure from the Flit Company costumes, nice orange ones with a headband reading F-L-I-T, to be worn...
...shoddiest of men take on graciousness, and old ladies forget to prattle of their favorite ailments. Young men reveal the subtle ways of Spring in just that proper tilt of the hat. And, inevitably in May, flaunting their best clothes and their best looks along the lanes, "wymmen waxeth wonder proude." Twilight comes in on silver feet, and the Vagabond, in mellower mood, has a kindly thought even for the penny-a-liners...
...about a play house made and furnished by the peoples of Wales for dear little Princess Elizabeth. My small daughters and I were greatly interested. But now I see in the Times' Rotogravure section for April 3 pictures of the poor wrecked house gutted by fire, and we wonder how it could have become ignited on its journey to the Princess. Although I recall seeing no mention of any of this in TIME, still I feel it is news that interests mothers and little girls, at least, and I should be greatly obliged if you could give some details...
...that particular fraction of a course which interests him; in the hour examination he has to answer, with gritted teeth, detailed, and often stupid, questions which he has learned the day before and forgets on the next. From the emphasis placed on these tests rather than the theses, small wonder that epithets sometimes fly freely...
Though alumni may wonder why this deficit exists and may question past, present, or future policies, they should not hesitate to help when failure to help means danger to all Yale...