Word: wonder
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Dates: during 1880-1880
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...trouble of sending formal invitation cards to his pupils, with the same result. Several other cases could be cited to support the opinion that the evil is rooted partly, at least, in the habitual conservatism of students in making new acquaintances by which they might profit. No wonder that professors soon give up all hope of ever bringing about the different relation which is so much to be desired. If it cannot be said that the whole remedy lies with the students, we must admit that it lies with them at least in part...
Just then an ominous growl broke upon my ears. I trembled violently, and my teeth rattled with fear. There was a rustling in the bushes - I looked up - I saw a horrid great creature with switching tail and fiery eyes. I wonder that I did not faint; perhaps I had self-possession enough to recognize the uselessness of such a proceeding; nevertheless I was paralyzed with fear, for the gates of eternity seemed about to engulf...
...Atlantic contemporaries were less interesting even than ordinary this week, and we picked up the Oxford and Cambridge Undergraduates' Journal, to see what they were doing on the other side. No wonder that a fine eight can be made, when the Journal publishes a list of thirty-four eights in practice, belonging to the different colleges which compose the University of Cambridge...
Then on a huge car was exhibited the mechanical wonder of wonders, - the marking machine; it has the extraordinary power of always running down without requiring to be wound up. Its inventor has also discovered perpetual motion, and is now busy squaring the circle. A regiment of soldiers guarded this valuable chariot, and led the way for a bevy of proctors, attired in invisible tights, with noiseless moccasins. A vacant chair (of Theology) was carried on the back of a Zulu...
...Mutual wonder, mutual stare...