Word: wonder
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Perhaps the most striking fact," says Mr. Weber, "in all these years of composition has been the docility of the students. Is the arrogance of youth' a meaningless phrase? I can count on my fingers the students who have rebelled against my criticisms. . . . . I wonder whether the same conditions prevail at Harvard or at Bryn Mawr? I know they do not in athletics...
...reading to commit to memory, is futile, if that memorizing process is so mechanical that we forget all the facts after a quiz. Yet this is the system which is prevalent here at Harvard, and at other colleges throughout the country. With such methods of study there is little wonder that educators find their students submissively docile and without originality...
...wastefulness. If we do not have an hour or more available for a certain task, we let the precious moments slip by. We postpone until a more convenient time tasks which might be started and possibly finished. We plan our lives on a slip-shod basis. And then we wonder why our college careers are barren of achievement...
...moment's time of several men in college who are contributing largely to their alma mater in the form of personal, unselfish service. They are not men of distinguished talents or of remarkable native ability, and yet they manage to turn out a great volume of work. You wonder how they do it. The simple truth is that they possess a peculiar knack for developing the odd moment, operating their lives on an efficient basis...
...year ago this month the companies of the Harvard Regiment held their first drills in the wintry atmosphere of the baseball cage. Today the success and achievements of the thousand men who composed the Regiment are looked back on with pride and a feeling of wonder. On Wednesday, January tenth, a dinner for all the men enrolled last year will be held at the Union, in order to commemorate the establishing of the Regiment and to keep alive the spirit of sacrifice and patriotism that made possible the remarkable results which Captain Cordier obtained. Major-General Leonard Wood...