Word: wonder
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Joseph Pennell, well-known artist, illustrator and author, will give an illustrated lecture in the Lecture Room, Fogg Art Museum, at 4.30 o'clock Thursday afternoon. His subject has been announced as "The Wonder of War Work...
...sort of dream to wonder what would happen if great men of former times came back to look on the present. We have been told what Abraham Lincoln would have thought of the war; we have heard what opinion Louis XIV would have held of the initiative and referendum; it has even been suggested how Isaiah would have received Billy Sunday. Strangely, however, no one has ever informed us of Phillips Brooks' words, should he enter Phillips Brooks House. For the Bishop was an inveterate smoker. He purchased a brand of long, black cigars, which were not labeled Colorado Claro...
...soil of Mexico could produce it. We fear it needed the greater fertility of Mr. Parsons' imagination. Mr. Carroll's story is light, very light, and judged by the standard of the average American magazine, altogether irreproachable. Mr. Davis' "The Lord's Prayer" is touching enough. We do not wonder that the Belgian children were unable to forgive the Germans. Such forgiveness comes only with understanding. Of the other stories, "A Tale" is perhaps the most arresting, in spite of the conventional pessimism which we find also in Mr. Slingerland's story...
...Canfield '19, who was captain of Company B. of the R. O. T. C., declared that this was no time to wonder what to do, but it was a time to act. There were two duties incumbent on all college men: namely, to prepare to be good citizens after the war and to prepare to lead troops on the western front. He dwelt on the wonderful opportunity afforded by the presence of Captain Amann as an instructor in the science of modern warfare and the fact that if no other result was reaped from the courses offered, coming in touch...
...been a custom so old that the oldest living graduate remembers it as a mewling Freshman, for us to publish warnings, exhortations, pleadings, and commands for men to study for their examinations. The aforesaid warnings come always nine days before, to provide the time of the proverbial wonder. Having done that, we laid aside the pen, with the conscious rectitude of a good duty well done...