Word: wonder
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...courses have been arranged in groups with the utmost care, and the only wonder is that the difficulty is not greater. But still many parallel courses in different departments conflict. For example, Philosophy One and Economics Two, two natural companion courses, interfere, as do also Government One, Fine Arts Four and Latin B. French Six can not be taken in the same year with either Economics One or Seven. French Two C conflicts with English Two and Eleven, while History Ten, Economics Four and German One B all come at the same hour. German B, Spanish One and Economics There...
ONCE try a pair of Crawford Shoes costing $5.00, $4.00 or even $3.00, and you will no longer wonder at its great success. At Crawford Shoe Stores, 225 Washington street, and 36 Park square...
...Lions to the graves of its ancient kings, and described the marvellous treasure found there by Schliemann, and then mounting to the summit of the citadel gave a brief account of the royal palace. He next described the bee-hive tombs, outside the citadel, whose massive proportions rouse the wonder of the modern traveller as to what manner of men these later kings of Mycenae may have been, and recounted the final fate of the citadel. Mideia and Argos, the two other ancient citadels in the Argive plain, still wait for the spade of some enterprising excavator...
Before Dr. Schliemann started his excavations in Asia Minor, said Professor Goodwin, no Troy was known of. It was said that the Greek poets set their heroes in a wonder land, and men claimed there was no evidence that Troy ever existed. The earlier chapters of the city were lost, not only in history, but in myth. Mycenx's kings were great in power and wealth and any one could have been Homer's Agamemnon. Indeed modern scholars doubted the site assigned to Troy. In northwestern Asia Minor was a hill on which Illium, a city which asserted itself...
...said then, there are few students who thoroughly appreciate the need of system in gymnastic training. In these winter months when out-door exercise is difficult to obtain, men naturally depend upon the Gymnasium for the exercise that is necessary to keep in good bodily health. Many students wonder that they do not grow stronger after weeks of hard work in the gymnasium. Some find that instead of making them stronger and better their exercise makes them feel tired and listless in the evenings and unfits them for study. The reason for this is simply that they have not gone...