Word: wondered
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...whose powers of prophecy were unlimited. The communications received through the lips of the Pythia undoubtedly contained much of truth and falsity mixed together; but they were, nevertheless, of ten times marvels of common sense and good advice, and to the people of that age it is no wonder that they appeared to come direct from a deity. It was not only from the near-lying states of Greece that the people came to consult the oracle at Delphi, but from states situated far away. There came to the shrine people in every rank of life. Kings sent their envoys...
...tempted to try the experiences of that other university which is called the city of Boston. For every city is a university; every city has a great deal to teach, and has a great many illustrations of what are taught in other colleges; and we must not wonder if the men of today, who find themselves close to the streets of Boston, to its courts, its State House, its schools, its concerts, its theatres, its dances, its lectures, and its other opportunities for study or amusement, avail themselves often of what that university at their side has to teach...
...pith of this letter. Under the present system where students are at a loss to know what will be done next, or whether their outlays and training may be made naught at the last moment by some unlooked-for rule of novelty, it is not to be wonder that the teams are supported by the college listlessly, and that they themselves play with a feeling of indifference and a proneness to lay their continued defeats at the door of the faculty under whose regulations they labor with difficulty. If the tone of Harvard is today one of indifference...
...above is only a sample of the way in which newspaper reporters get things mixed. It is no wonder that the Board of Overseers talk of the "continual recriminations" offered by one nine to another in the intercollegiate league when they read such lies in the columns of the daily press. On the occasion mentioned above, there was absolutely no hissing whatever on the part of the Harvard men; and, in fact, the conduct of the spectators on both sides was perfectly decent and gentlemanly throughout the game. It seems to be a rule among press reporters, whenever they...
...floated around the college about the game, some to the effect that Harvard had won, and no authentic information was had until about nine o'clock the true score was brought out from Bostom. Such a state of uncertainty was a source of continual worry and anxiety, and no wonder men felt as though they had not been treated fairly. To avert a like state of affairs again, the manager should be instructed to send the score of every game played away from Cambridge without fail, and then perhaps those who remain here will not be hoodwinked into cheering pseudo...