Word: wondrousness
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...second place, what a student sees of scholarship in some of those who claim to represent its glories is more likely to repel than attract him. The grind sitting at his elbow and the pedant standing on the lecture platform are poor ambassadors to the student from that wondrous Republic of Intellect whose advantages are so often talked about, but so rarely demonstrated. The normal student wants to become a well-rounded man. In the grind he sees an impotent and grotesque shadow of a man, and in the pedant, the father of the grind...
...chose for dean; Briggs, also, stands alone. "Who that saw the Commencement of 1900 can forget the slender, slightly bent figure that stood almost shrinking while Eliot spoke, the bowed head, the downcast eyes-and the cheers that shook the theatre? " Le Baron Russell Briggs.' A wondrous voice rang out the words. Le Baron Russell Briggs. The well-beloved dean of Harvard College, patient, tender, discerning, candid, just and cheering because convinced of the overwhelming predominance of good in the student world.' And unshaken and unshakable in this conviction, which is the soul of love, for more than...
...dripping, happy horsemen guided their lathered ponies across International Field, at Meadow Brook, L. I., toward the official box of the U. S. Polo Association. They were the Four Horsemen of America's polo apocalypse and had just left their English opponents tranced and helpless a second time before wondrous revelations of speed, strength, skill with mount and mallet. Said the Scoreboard: "U. S., 14; England...
...Under the Kremlin walls in Moscow excavations were made for a permanent Lenin tomb. Popular superstition has had it for many centuries that there exists an "underground Kremlin" full of priceless treasures of medieval Tsars. This has been discovered to be fact, and the Bolsheviki, having discovered many wondrous things, are fired with the hope of extracting riches undreamed...
...next evening King Ferdinand and Queen Marie gave a banquet to the British Sovereigns in the Rumanian Legation. The Prince of Wales and the Duke and Duchess of York were also present. Queen Marie, in a wondrous gown of gold brocade, stood at the head of the magnificant Legation staircase with her husband and received the guests. The Legation was smothered with roses and pink trimmings, pink being the favorite color of Queen Marie. At the banqueting table gold plate was used and the dishes were of valuable Sevres...