Word: wonder
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Professor G. H, Palmer '64 spoke of him at that time as the one man who had left a vivid personal impression upon the graduates. Even in later years, when a few special students enjoyed his teaching, every member of the College knew him well and often looked with wonder and curiosity as he walked to and from his room in the west entry of Holworthy...
...wonder whether the commons at any American college can provide the exhibitions of childishness which we have lately seen at Memorial Hall. The mere appearance in the gallery of a member of either sex is now the occasion for a concerted clinking of glasses combined sometimes with more or less effective expressions in the way of cheering. Lately these forms have united with the throwing of food. The CRIMSON heartily endorses the sentiments expressed in the communication printed on another page of this morning's issue in regard to the deplorable incident of Friday last...
...part it leads us to wonder whether an even more strict watch over the studies of such helpless athletes need not be exercised by the athletic authorities. Even now an all too great amount of energy is spent in prodding such men, only with this result. It is a result that not only hurts the men themselves, and Harvard football, but it also places athletics in a false light. How far will it be necessary to go, to make Freshman athletes realize their responsibility? How long will this same unnecessary drama of probation be enacted...
...that they are the "all-around" men, well balanced, often brilliant both in studies and "outside interests", they bear the burdens which the less energetic do not care to assume. The result is that the breakdowns are all too frequent among this small group. And, after all, we wonder if those who succeed in the struggle are any better equipped for their life work after they have thus tested their capacities to the utmost. Granting that they occasionally are brilliant men in after life, we believe that the percentage is so small as to render a strain...
...mean that there is less religious thought, or philanthropic effort, contributed at Harvard than at other universities. We, as Harvard men are inclined to be conservative in all ways and it is natural that little or no expression is given to our accomplishments along religious lines. It is no wonder, then, that many undergraduates are totally ignorant of the tremendous amount of work done by Harvard students through the medium of Brooks House...