Word: wonders
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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John Harvard, veteran, has reason to wonder at the palace on the Charles these days. Prewar registration days were a far cry from the maddening crowd that thundered through Memorial Hall on the first leg of their pursuit of a formal education. Course attendance ballooned to new levels as cozy discussion courses became monstrous lecture courses. House dining halls continued to look like Army mess halls. Laundry salesmen and cleaning contractors, once frenetic in their hunt for prospects, assumed an unbecoming coyness. As for getting books, John found texts unobtainable and the lines interminable. In fact, John found lines everywhere...
...supper club founded (to talk shop) in 1921 by Conant and a group of his faculty friends and their wives. Conant was a good listener and a quick questioner, especially on history, literature and philosophy. He once remarked to an associate who was studying 17th Century history: "I sometimes wonder if our two subjects aren't both the same, when you get high enough into them...
...that Conant is wholly occupied with Harvard's adjustment-in science, international studies, social relations and citizenship-to the Atomic Age, some of his former Washington associates wonder if that is the most useful spot for him. In retrospect they are more than ever impressed with his facility for learning "through the pores," for quickly grasping human as well as scientific problems-and they are quietly talking about Conant's presidential potentialities. Nobody has asked Jim Conant what he thinks, but at 53 he still has a zest for adventure...
There was one big difference between 1926's and 1946's U.S. Amateur Golf Championship at New Jersey's famed Baltusrol links. The difference was a fellow named Bobby Jones. Twenty years ago, Bobby the Boy Wonder had trouble elbowing his way around the spectator-mobbed course. At Baltusrol last week, the nation's 150 best amateurs had no such traffic trouble; only 4,000 spectators showed up during the first four days...
Short, diminutive Coach Stahl will probably be best remembered in Cambridge circles as the talented guiding hand that sent the first Crimson basketball squad to the Madison Square Garden floor. Paced by wonder-man Wyndol Gray, last year's aggregation more than compensated for earlier Stahl outfits that managed to taste glory only by beating M.I.T...