Word: wonders
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...Upon finishing, I found that I could contradict my thesis about as well as I could defend it, and I still had a list of questions and leads that I wanted to follow. I felt not just relief but wonder that I had finished what began with a bit of unseen evidence, and sadness that the process was over. What began with belief ended with knowledge, experience, and disbelief...
...wonder if, based on all that we already have, Harvard can ever satisfy us. In fact, I wonder if anything will ever satisfy us. This year, two of Harvard’s recent Rhodes Scholars penned myriad complaints about the scholarship program and Oxford University, including the inadequacy of its library system, on the pages of this newspaper. I have the feeling that no institution we enter hereafter will ever fulfill our expectations or the standards we’ve become accustomed to, just as Harvard “never” did. Are we insatiable...
...unlike in high school where GPA, SATs, and leadership titles seemed to be the name of the game, the rules for “doing well” at Harvard weren’t scripted, leaving me to wonder: Was it based on your grades, the kind of impact you had in your activities, the number of Facebook friends you had, or maybe the amount of time you could spend playing XBox while still acing Expos? Whatever the measure was, I felt humbled by the group of talented, ambitious students around me. “Doing well?...
It’s little wonder, then, that Harvard students from Holmes’s time through the 1950s looked to the women at Radcliffe College to satisfy their romantic urges...
...People wonder how we lived here. But we were self-sufficient. We didn't drink, we didn't smoke. Any little bit of money you had, you had to use wisely otherwise you had none," says Corduff, 53, drinking tea in his kitchen as he muses on the strange course of events that made him, first a jailbird, then a national hero and, earlier this month, took him to San Francisco to collect $125,000 as winner of the prestigious Goldman Environmental Prize...