Word: wonderful
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...forced to wonder at the remarkable descriptions of student customs and student life which crop out occasionally in the public prints. They are generally written with such a complete understanding as might have come either to a book agent who has spent a few hours in a dormitory or to a man who has lunched with a friend at Memorial Hall...
...their wisest and wittiest moments? That it enables us to see with the keenest eyes, hear with the finest ears, and listen to the sweetest voices of all time? More than that, it annihilates time and space for us; it revives for us without a miracle the Age of Wonder, endowing us with the shoes of swiftness and the cap of darkness, so that we walk invisible like fern-seed, and witness unharmed the plague at Athens or Florence or London; accompany Caesar on his marches, or look in on Catiline in council with his fellow conspirators, or Guy Fawkes...
Each step in the development of the 'varsity ball nine will be eagerly watched this year. The chances of success are so small that the thought of victory is likely to be ridiculed, especially by men not connected with the University, and it is a wonder if sometimes all effort does not seem hopeless to the captain. And yet there has been no falter in the work spent upon the nine, and we are confident that there never will be. This staunchness of purpose, this carefulness over plans, this determination in action at so trying a time is precisely...
...Renaissance in Italy, Mr. Van Dyke said, dates from 1501 to 1692, covering nearly two centuries. Before this period Italy was plunged in the darkness of the Middle Ages. Even during this period of darkness many paintings were made, and the wonder is not that the work which this age produced is poor, but that it could produce any work at all. The great men of Italy were Dante, Boccaccio and Petrarch. They represented three great elements of art, the religious, the realistic and the classical, and these are the fundamental elements of all the Renaissance painting...
...sources, that there are certain members of the 'varsity nine who are not keeping strict training. We mean by this that they are not living up to the rules laid down by the captain. The conduct of some of the players on the Easter trip was such that you wonder the team made as good a record as it did. Since then the training has been much better, but not up to the standard which is required. Whether or not the erratic playing of the nine has been caused by this loose system of training, is a question which...