Word: pondered
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...doubts that our young men in college are not straining every nerve to finish their educations and fit themselves for the active duties of life, let them ponder over the fact that the deep theme to be written upon by the sophomores of Harvard College is, "The Comparative Merits of Base-Ball and Foot-Ball...
...Scotch goods were dismissed from mind, there still remained the question of the cut, which I had promised to settle at some future time. A man's clothes at Harvard are somewhat like the ablative in Latin: they express manner, means, quality-and price. Hence I could not but ponder with much anxiety on the question, how long the coattails should be, if indeed it were not better to stick to the old-fashioned sack, and how large a pair of shoes the trousers should be made to admit...