Word: enigma
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...wish to say a few words anent the communication that appears in another column, for whether it is owing to parsimony or some other hidden cause, it still remains an enigma why a better attendance has not been given to the lectures under the auspices of the Art and Philological Societies for the benefit of the Assos expedition. The first, on the OEdipus, by Prof. Packard, drew but a very meagre audience. Mr. Agassiz was better supported, as was Prof. Goodwin, but in no wise as they should have been. The lectures have been exceptionally good, dealing with a class...
...pass lightly over what last year would have been a good subject for the indignant utterances of the editorial pen, and even say that the freshmen did a good thing. This change is as marvellous as it is sudden. The cause of it remains, and always will remain an enigma. We would have as soon expected to see the Globe or the Post warmly advocating the "grand old principles of the Republican party," as to see the Boston papers treat the actions of Harvard students with leniency, or even fairness. Can it be that the child-like, modest, and unassuming...
Whence he obtained such success, must remain - like himself - an enigma...
...understand its meaning, for it is the wail of the letter-box, its agonizing moan of helplessness and impotence. But It is doomed to everlasting dumbness. Its secrets are by It unutterable. A Sphinx? No, a thousand times more than the Sphinx. For what to us is the enigma of the Sphinx, a riddle of the dead past, compared with the enigmas of our living world...
...inner life of a poet is an enigma to the ordinary mortal. He is regarded as a curious being who rarely descends to the commonplace things of earth, and when he does so, his visits are supposed to be of short duration. My own experiences on this subject may help to change this opinion in a slight degree...