Word: wonders
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...matter of wonder that American poets so seldom see fit to choose subjects for their work taken from the legends and history of the better specimens of the Indian tribes of this country. Longfellow's "Hiawatha" is almost the only work of any note of this sort; and the popular success of that work has been by no means inconsiderable. A carefully finished and musical poem, "The League of the Iroquois," has recently appeared from the pen of a Western poet, Benj. Hathaway; it is well spoken of by the critics, and it certainly exhibits the richness of the field...
...beautiful to behold are the dazzling levels and fantastic drifts under the deep blue sky. But in the busy round of work we have scarcely time to watch nature's doings, and only when she flings a glorious day like this in our very faces do we stop to wonder and admire. Just now we have on the tapis a course of readings from Shakspere, by Prof. R. R. Raymond, the first of which was to have been given this evening, but was postponed on account of Prof. Raymond's illness. He is to read "Julius Caesar," "Henry IV," "Much...
Truly "every shining hour" at Lasell is crowded with something to be seen, or heard, or learned, until one begins to wonder how much of all this rich material one's mind is laying up in store, and how much it treacherously lets slip, since minds are sometimes quite as lazy as their owners. To be sure it's a very deplorable habit, but one which we are obliged to recognize...
...more than this, the freshman work is excessively subdivided as to topics; and that greater confusion and distraction of mind does not result among the men is really a matter for wonder. While these things are so, while the freshman course remains so arbitrary and unattractive in so many respects, and while its scope is so diffused and its arrangement so incoherent, it is to be expected that men will be driven to partially neglect certain subjects, and then to resort to the cramming system to save themselves at the end, whether the subjects be taught by lectures...
...rumored that Memorial Hall "statement" will be made out as soon as the bursar has time and the auditor has learned to add up figures. We wonder what the price of board is for January...