Word: wonder
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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EDITORS DAILY CRIMSON: For several years it has been the custom of our Glee Club to give a concert in the yard to the members of the Princeton nine in the evening after the annual game between Princeton and Harvard at Cambridge. It has been a matter of wonder to many why a like honor has never been paid to the Yale nine. There is no apparent reason why the nine from one of our sister colleges should be more honored than that from the other. The distinction that has been made every year probably arose from some accidental circumstances...
...have the faculty of deceiving others as to their rowing efficiency and their shallow curves would at once show their true status. It indicates the form or type of strokes pulled and enables a man to correct himself and be corrected by a trainer. It has long been a wonder how some comparatively weak men can out-row many stronger. The explanation lies largely in the fact that the one distributes his strength over the stroke in the most telling way. This economical stroke would have a corresponding curve, and if we all knew the proper curve...
...political economy? You are not Christians. There are no germs of heroism in your souls. Do you hear this, earnest Christians? Political economy is to you a thing to be shunned; your conduct is guided by no reason, and you are in every way imprudent men. And yet, oh, wonder, of wonders, "each may be good, and adds, perhaps, to the sum of happiness." While "the ideals to be derived from Christianity are completely inconsistent with those which political economy emphasizes," yet we "can only adjust ourselves to these inconsistencies to the best of our ability." The writer...
...basis that shall include athletics? Certainly here is a motive for mass meetings of the members at frequent intervals, I mean, to discuss, and what is more, vote upon the management of the various teams and nines and crews. The interest in athletics would be increased, I would not wonder if subscriptions - to use a money-market term - should become easier. A feeling of personal interest in the teams would be fostered, and position on any one of them be glorified. If the managements of the various modes of athletics are to be consolidated, if the university club...
...college productions - a railroad train, a rescue, two falls and a young lady, with a handsome military hero and stupid rival - and has by clever arrangement made a very interesting sketch. The denouement is particularly happy, and by it the reader's attention is held to the last. We wonder, by the way, what perron in Monaco the hero found so familiar...