Word: wonders
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Freshman year will save a great deal of time and later inconvenience. The college offers excellent facilities in all branches of non-organized sports. Swimming sculling, handball; tennis, squash--all are extremely well coached and arranged with a view to the individuals. Under these conditions it is a small wonder that so many finally turn to these branches of athletics through the year, finding them, for one reason or another, more suited to the individual taste or ability...
Back came the New York voice, remote and cheerful: "Certainly, General. Go ahead!'' Above the storm's roar the General valiantly began to bellow: "It will be a wonder if this article ever gets to the papers. It is written in a little cottage on the Delaware eastern shore. Last night a hurricane struck. The water...
...begins with Charles Chastain's memories of his first trip North. Traveling with his patient, tactful, observant mother, Charles was old enough to wonder if the Yankees were still having a war up in their country, to sense his parents' social isolation in New Castle, Del., where they settled. Capable, indecisive, troubled, Dr. Chastain at 32 had left Charlottesville because he could not wait for a post at the University to be offered to him. He told his son that the Yankees had been licking Southerners at business for a hundred years, but that the South still turned...
With such a set-up, small wonder that Harvard lays claim to being one of the cultural centers of the nation. As a reservoir of abstract learning, with libraries, laboratories and learned men, she holds a definite trust, both in perpetuating past scholarship and in stimulating the arts and sciences for present day benefits to humanity. A glance at Harvard's contributions to industrial life, for instance, bears striking witness to the value of scientific investigation to the national economy. And most important of all are the men, schooled in the healthy student life or trained professionally in graduate work...
...faith. This assembly honors a vision three centuries old and in so doing reaffirms an intent of perpetuating an ideal. A hundred years ago President Quincy, writing of the founding of Harvard, used these words: "On recurring to the origin of this seminary, our first feelings impel us to wonder and admire." From such admiration grow the celebration of the two hundredth anniversary; with no less reverential feeling the sons of Harvard have once again met here to mark the turn of another century...