Word: wonderful
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...take my note book and try to write, but the sun comes blazing down on the back of my head and neck till my eyes swim and I wonder whether my hair will be light pink or blue the next day. This may sound fearful, but I have got such severe headaches from this tri-weekly broiling that I prefer to cut and grind up the course in the library rather than attend the lectures. A few curtains will not impoverish our lords and masters, and will cure the defect; - why can't they be hung there at once, especially...
...friends of our religious home missions when told of the success of their brethren of the foreign missions. Yet when the abuses at present existing in the college, simply (so affirmed) because of a lack of funds to obviate them, are once brought before us, we cannot but wonder how the claims of a foreign school can be preferred to those of our own. Our library, from a lack of funds to light it, has proved to be the most annoying of all our privileges, nor can we succeed even for a moment in driving the fact home, that...
...take the advantages offered their mental powers. Mens sana in corpore sano, should be Harvard's second motto. With its splendid Hemenway gymnasium, fitted out with everything in the way of athletic apparatus that human ingenuity has devised, its ball fields and running tracks, it is no wonder that Harvard, drawing from its sixteen hundred students, all of whom are anxious to represent their college in athletic contests, should be able to put forward a base-ball nine that wins every game it plays, a football team that is only beaten by Yale, and a boat crew that leaves even...
There the officers of instruction have increased 60 per cent., here 112 per cent. In that very important matter, "the sinews of war" we have made a gain of more than 100 per cent. to Yale's 75. In the light of these statistics, who can wonder at the desire of the Yale alumni to adopt a more liberal scheme of education and thus make a more rapid intellectual development force greater material prosperity...
...ounce' Indian clubs with an absorbing devotion, worthy of so great a cause. All are delighted with our new teacher, and the hour for exercise is hailed with joy. Everyone is exhibiting an interest in her neighbor's muscle, and the girl who can vault is looked upon with wonder and amazement by the majority of the new girls, although by this time they are quite 'old' and worldly-wise...