Word: wondered
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...besides what is read in class, is an idea that never enters his mind. For him, the finest library has no more attractions than his own collection of well-thumbed text-books. He works hard and conscientiously, we cannot blame him for the smallness of his brain, but only wonder why he came to Harvard...
...wonder what was the intention of the man who fitted up the interior of University, in putting the seats, in all the rooms where it was possible, so as to face the light...
DEAR SIR, - Learning that your company is negotiating with the Freshmen for (financial) strength enough to draw its last breath, I have taken the liberty of addressing you concerning the introduction of the new wonder, - the Telephone. This invention once introduced at Harvard would immediately raise the Telegraph Company to a position never before reached, and also would cover the officers of that company with everlasting glory...
...sunk! To think that whole, able-bodied men, some of them peradventure endowed with reason, can thus grovel in the dust, and deceive themselves in the thought that they are pursuing their duty! O Popoi! how sad! how sad! Earth does not contain a more pitiful spectacle. And I wonder if any cruel Nemesis will reduce me to such a lot, and at once a cold chill pierces my marrow, my hands involuntarily seek my pockets, and I draw my chair closer to the fire, hoping for the best...
...pushed up against the iron rest, and you are trying to look interested in a nail on the wall, when all the while you feel as constrained as possible, the word is uttered and the monster eye is about to glare; and just then, of a sudden, you wonder if you are opening your eyes wide enough. Every one likes to have justice done to his eyes, and so you lift your eyelids a little, and when the "proof" comes out, those two very expressive features are indeed flatteringly large, but distended to a degree not pleasant to contemplate...