Word: wondering
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...athlete, even if confined to his own college, might well be sufficient to make him overestimate the importance of his athletic activity. When this fame spreads over whole sections of the country, and college athletics become the most prominent matter of news in the daily papers, it is small wonder that the natural place of football, which attracts more intense interest than any other sport, should be entirely forgotten...
...when he may read in every newspaper in the land a detailed account of how Williams stubbed his toe, and when he knows there are thousands of people all over the United States anxiously waiting for news of Knipe's sprained ankle? I say it strikes me with admiring wonder to see how modestly you bear yourselves, and how little you seem to be afflicted with that cephalic enlargement which I should think such excessive praise and publicity would be sure to produce. But, gentlemen, you have more and harder work cut out for you. To the honor and credit...
...some improvement over this state of affairs, but, it must be admitted, without great success. Each year there are thrust upon the English department from three to four hundred students who are sadly incapable of writing their own language well. With this mass of unformed material to develop, the wonder is not that much of the undergraduate English remains unsatisfactory, but rather that any of it is ever really satisfactory. It is to be hoped that the preparatory schools will before long come to the aid of the college, and build up in all their students at least the foundations...
...comparatively recent resignations of C. Brewer '96, the newly-elected captain of the Harvard football team for next year, and E. H. Fennessy '96, the captain of this spring's crew, have naturally created surprise and wonder among Yale alumni and undergraduates. It is hard to get a solution of the modus operandi, now popular at Harvard, although several prominent Yale athletes have been interviewed on the subject, among them Walter Camp '80, as well as different members of the football team and some of the candidates for the crew...
...great extent true that the popular evening lectures are for all practical purposes open only to the college and the Cambridge public. The student who wishes to give his friends a glimpse of the activities of college life is at present offered few opportunities beyond the athletic games. What wonder that when so many people have come to Cambridge to see football or baseball games the impression should go forth that we think of little else...