Word: wonder
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...have never enjoyed the freedom or the advantages which are now thrust upon you, and it is more than possible that you will abuse them both. With all your forced maturity and self reliance your point of view will be radically changed as you advance, and you will often wonder in your senior year at your freshman self-assertion and wisdom. It is not our purpose to discourage you-far from that-on the contrary we extend to you our warmest greetings as Harvard men, and yet we are desirous of warning you against the indiscretions so common...
...moral and mental activities. These are merely phases of modern anthropological study, for Anthropology embraces all the relations of man to nature. It may seem strange that a study of such vital importance to humanity should be of such recent origin. But, as the child does not wonder much about itself until it has in some degree satisfied its curiosity about the things around it, so the human race has but lately begun to study itself, after having, through centuries of labor gathered a little knowledge of surrounding objects. So recent is the study of Anthropology that no university, either...
...everything, in fact, that would enable him to compete with his white neighbor, in the struggle for existence. The trouble had been that the government had never understood the Indian. They had provided him with food and clothing, thereby enabling him to live in idleness, and it is no wonder that now he is unable to support himself. Instead of giving him rations, he should have been given land and farming implements and obliged to earn his own living. In spite of these great disadvantages the Indians are slowly improving, and General Armstrong believes that the western railroads have been...
...already in effect bachelors of art and ready to enter upon the struggie for the second degree. In 1887-88 fifty-two such men entered the Harvard Law School; in the same year the number of graduates of Harvard College who entered that school was also fifty-two. No wonder the dean of the college is in favor of shortening the college course...
...advantage. In the matter of attendance the record of those who take a strong interest in athletics, although not perfect, is exceedingly good, and the number of cuts resulting from the absence of men who go away with university teams to support them, surprisingly small. It is therefore no wonder that, from all that can be gleaned on the subject, the professors on the athletic committee are convinced that athletics are decidedly beneficial, instead of injurious, to the standard of scholarship in college...