Word: wonder
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...hope that with the beginning of a new year, the majority who prefer healthful air will exert their rights and prove their independence from the domination of the antiquated exponents of the closed window. Furthermore, we would suggest that instructors who wonder at the lagging attention which they are receiving should use their influence to remedy material conditions before looking farther for an explanation...
...through without a moment's delay, Professor Beale's "Reorganization of the University," will prove delightful. We have heard the "College system" recommended, but Professor Beale commands it. The article is fairly melodramatic; each sentence, sharp, clear-cut, sweeping, provides new excitement. When we have finished, we wonder breathlessly how Harvard can continue to exist if all the things Professor Beale says are true...
...then we have found the bacillus of tuberculosis and the fight with the White Plague has been taken up all over the land. In New York City we have every year 8000 deaths from tuberculosis and there are always 20,000 persons dying from the scourge. Is it any wonder, when laboratory experiments have shown that, whereas a ray, of direct sunlight kills the germ at once, in a dark tenement room or hallway it may live two years, or three...
...stories in the current number of the Advocate suffer from compromise. They make one wonder if such work as "Tom Brown at Rugby" or the verses of Mr. Henry Newbolt has not shown that life within a school, games, and the points of honor between man and man that games may bring out are not--if we are to have "college stories"--themes more typical and more likely to call forth the best powers of undergraduate writers than that type of college story in which the principal male characters merely sleep in Cambridge. It is to be hoped, of course...
Artists often wonder, said Mrs. Fiske, if they are doing any good when they compare their art with practical human work which supplies a pressing need. The justification of the drama must be found in its power to soften the brutal instincts which lie hidden in every man. Acting today is becoming specialized, and the range of actors is growing smaller. The actors of the past generation were better in Shakespearian roles than modern actors: but today plays are perfectly mounted and the actors excel in showing the problems of every day life. In modern plays there is less outward...