Word: wonderful
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Harvard Union was founded only four years ago, yet within a single College generation its activity has become so interwoven with the interests of the University that we wonder how former generations of Harvard men ever got on without a Harvard Union. During the past year, the Union has aimed to embrace and centralize practically every phase of College life...
...Archbishop said that he like to look at portraits of the great men of history and, judging their opportunities in the light of our later knowledge and experience, consider whether they rose to meet those opportunities or whether they missed them, and to wonder how those of the future who shall look back upon us, will judge that we have risen to our own opportunities or missed them. We must understand how unique are the opportunities for service offered to men of our day compared with those given to corresponding individuals who have gone before. The wonderful development of means...
Lifted the saddened soul to wonder and rejoice...
...function of religion in social development, maintaining that religion as a moral and conservative force is an aid to progress Science and religion, he said, sprang originally from the same sources in human nature, the desire to know, and the desire to find the hidden causes of things. The wonder excited by the contemplation of the unexplainable realities of experience, the belief in an eternal source of energy and life, reverence for the past all tend to strengthen one's faith in an ideal which makes rational moral action attractive...
...exhibition of football would not be pleasant to imagine; and worst of all, it proved again that the University eleven has failed to better its playing under three weeks of efficient coaching. Every fault that the team has shown this fall cropped out in yesterday's game, and the wonder of it all is that the team ever pulled together enough to rush the ball through much lighter opponents the twenty-five yards necessary for its touchdown. Moreover, if a light team can go through Harvard the way Amherst did, it would be interesting to know what opponents of equal...