Word: astonishment
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...satisfactory arrangement, but it seems to us that something better could be devised for a preliminary trial than merely having the Boylston Professor select twenty of the speakers to take part in the final contest. When we consider the fondness of judges for making an award which shall astonish everybody, we cannot help feeling that it is impossible for one single man to pick out twenty men, and say that they, and none but they, stand a chance for the five prizes that are offered. It seems to us that the only really fair way is to have the same...
...surprise the Catalogue-reader meets is, that, after the Faculty have been enumerated, the corps of College officers should be swelled by such names as those of the Superintendent of the Gymnasium, an Assistant in the Library, and the Steward of Memorial Dining-Association. Or, if this does not astonish him, he wonders that since these names are given he does not find other names also, - for instance, the name of her whose traditional title the Crimson once ingeniously avoided by styling her "she who superintends the goodies." And then why not have the names of all the goodies...
...understand the principle which governs Primary instruction in France. It cannot but astonish you who manage your own affairs, leaving the Federal government to look after its own. With you each township has an interest in its schools, a desire to be first in matters of education. To this end it selects the best possible masters, and makes the greatest sacrifices to the cause of education. Its schools are its glory. It is as proud of them as of its monuments, its bridges, or its roads. The schools are its own, and it cares for them. With...
...blotted scraps of paper from their pockets with an infantile-Byronic air, to the delight of their mothers and to the horror of all reasonable people; others stave off the evil hour until they fall in love, when, inspired, I suppose, by the object of their sonnets, they often astonish every one but themselves by the excellence of their verses, just as madmen have been known to develop powers of which their hours of sanity showed no trace; others, again, are attacked by the passion for versification at an advanced, perhaps a senile age, when they make themselves happy...