Word: wonderful
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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There is a Harvard colony in Lake county, California. These graduates are devoted to grape growing. The San Francisco Chronicle says that the native's look with wonder upon the oarsmanship of the Cambridge colonists...
...editor of the Bugle, and are printed, a fond mother weeps in joy over the promise of her son, and the Century registers a new contributor. C. is taking Phil. I. He breaks forth into an exegesis of Hedonism. The readers of the Bugle read and simply wonder. Perhaps it is all right, perhaps not. No one pauses to ask. It is not strange, however, if in future C's contributors are passed with suspicion. D. sings his little "Willow song," mounts his little pedestal, poses for a moment, and passes away. Such are our poets. They sing...
...Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., who are to speak on the "Ministry" and "Law as a Profession." We predict that Sever 11 will find itself more than ever unsuited to be the place of a popular course of lectures. The first two speakers are men of such note that we wonder that it was not announced that they would speak in Sanders, where their large audiences might be at least comfortably seated...
...finds himself, he is never at a loss for polite conversation if he has read the latest magazines. And it need not be empty talk, to discuss some striking character of Miss Woolson's or Mr. Howell's, to disagree over an article on the social question, to wonder at the latest scientific discovery. It is not strange that the "Popular Science Monthly" should be so much read at Harvard. It is almost the only college where science courses are numerous and thorough. The political and philosophical reviews have many readers here: the fine courses in Political Economy and Philosophy...
...only to finish the classical part of the education, but supply elementary instruction in the principal sciences. Thus one after another the old ideas give way to the new, and the fossils are put on the shelves where no longer as models, but as objects of wonder they may be looked at by succeeding generations...