Word: wonder
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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With the football game with Princeton but a few days distant, it is small wonder that all of us are in an unusual state of enthusiasm and excitement. Sixteen years have passed since a football team representing Princeton has played on our field, and so the game this week arouses an extraordinary amount of interest. Tonight an opportunity is afforded to show this interest and enthusiasm, the occasion being the first mass meeting of the year. Certainly there is no lack of enthusiastic support for the team or of confidence in its ability to win in this game...
...found expedient to revise and enlarge with great care the hymnal which Edward Everett Hall, Phillips Brooks, Alexander McKenzie, and George A. Gordon had compiled nine years before, and now, after seventeen years that have seen even greater changes in the University, it is no wonder that the need of revision is again felt. No attempt was made by the second group of compilers to provide for the families and friends of the professors who compose so large a part of the Sunday morning congregations. No particular use was apparent at that time for hymns appropriate to burial, communion...
Incoming students may wonder that they are not permitted to compete for positions on the CRIMSON board during the first half of their Freshman year. The paper has always felt that the change from school routine to College routine, or rather independence, is one that should not be too abrupt, and accordingly, Freshmen are advised to spend their first months in College in learning the new conditions which surround them. Having passed mid-years safely, they may begin to look around for something to do in the way of outside work; and if work is desired that opens a field...
...fact, we have received so many glowing accounts of the interior attractiveness of this imposing structure that our curiosity has been aroused. Since the new building has been constructed in so conspicuous a location, where it meets the gaze of nearly all Harvard students daily, it is small wonder that many undergraduates, not members of the major teams, have expressed a desire to obtain a glance at its interior...
...suggested that all join in singing "something that everybody knew." But it seemed there was almost no song which everybody knew, and after a pathetic rendering of "Oh You Beautiful Doll" and "The Ragtime Violin," somewhat more successful assaults were made on the football songs. It is little wonder that, after a dismal rehearsal of "Fair Harvard," the professor commented sadly upon the inability of Harvard students to sing...