Word: wondering
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...What in the name of wonder - ?" I ventured...
...then takes a pair of Indian clubs that I bought in my Freshman year, and swings them in dangerous proximity to my heated head. At last, thank Heaven, he goes, whistling all the way down stairs. I wonder why it is that people always whistle in the entries of the College buildings. They do not whistle in the Yard, or in their rooms; but, when going up or down stairs, every one thinks he must whistle the best he knows...
...absence of college men from public life, always a cause of more or less comment and wonder, has recently, by a high authority, been particularly mentioned and regretted in reference to Harvard. All of us, I think, regret it, and many of us are ambitious to some day increase the number of Harvard's delegation to Washington; but we all feel that there is too little provision here made to fit us for such honorably useful positions as those at which, it is to be supposed, this ambition aims. In pursuance of that well-considered scheme of study which...
...less imposed upon when obliged, after liberally subscribing for the crew, to pay an additional sum m order to obtain entrance to the boat-house, and yet another, and heavier, in order to enjoy the opportunity of rowing. As matters, now stand, this, though unpleasant, is inevitable; and the wonder is that such a solution of the difficulty as our correspondent brings forward has not already been adopted...
...WONDER if it ever occurred to any one to make a careful study of the ordinary Irishman, the kind who builds fires for his living. The specimen with which I have daily intercourse would furnish a careful student of human nature with a fund of amusement and instruction that would be inexhaustible. I ask you, my reader, to picture to yourself a man whose sole care in life, as far as it appears, is the burden of lighting sundry fires and cleaning various boots. It would seem as if this responsibility was not enough to make him absent-minded...