Word: wonder
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...costs $150 per year to belong to the Harvard Co-operative Society. The organization has been in existence five years, has a store of its own, and last year did a business amounting to $37,000. Why shouldn't we have one?- Princetonian. No wonder that out siders have distorted ideas of Harvard extravagance...
EDITORS DAILY CRIMSON:- At the risk of laying myself open to the charge of interference with the captain of the 'Varsity eleven, I cannot help, as a graduate, expressing my wonder that the eleven which is to meet Princeton and Yale in the foot-ball field so shortly has not been definitely decided upon long before this. The Yale eleven has been selected for at least two weeks; every member has his position definitely assigned to him, and knows that he will fill that position and no other for the remainder of the foot-ball season, provided no accident occurs...
...requesting them to furnish "punch" on Monday night to the sophomore class. Many freshmen, new to' Harvard customs, know no better than to accept the invitation, and when they view their belongings on the following morning, their standard of Harvard life has been lowered materially, and they begin to wonder whether this well-worn saying is true, "No matter what else he may be, a Harvard man is always a gentleman...
...Those are the college boys playing base-ball," remarked the female cicerone to her visiting friend as the Garden street horse car passed by the Common, where a decidedly seedy looking lot of town boys, with a negro at the bat, were indulging in the national game. "I wonder the teachers don't have their trousers mended," said the visitor reflectively; "the poor boys have no mothers to do it for them! Couldn't the girls in the Annex find time to do a little sewing for the lads?" - Cambridge Chronicle...
...throw out much; and 'my only literary resources were my private library and the notes previously taken in the British Museum and American libraries.' These explanations are, indeed, helpful in getting at the right point of view for judging of the book, but the reader will, after all, wonder at the extent and accuracy of the writer's knowledge and the general justness of his observations. Three 'Parts' on the 'Genesis of the Constitution,' 'The Federal Constitution,' and the 'Constitutional and General Law of the Separate States,' fill up the three hundred pages and more which compose the volume...