Word: wonder
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...pointed out with enthusiasm, would at once interest the student - are too often passed over, and comments made only on insignificant details. This failing is, of course, the most natural thing in the world. In fact, it is difficult to see how it could well be otherwise, the wonder being that instructors of long standing can impart the freshness that they do to a subject which through much repetition has lost its original significance to them. Still, as subversive of all good instruction, this fault must be sedulously guarded against, and it is with a view to this that...
...lake! I wonder now no more
...frog. The more numerous class, however, are swallowed up in the larger life of some great city, where, in contact with the great, broad stream of humanity engaged in the strife of active life, they realize the pettiness of their own small achievements and successes, and are led to wonder if these can ever really serve them when their resources are put to the test in real life. In short, they get a glimpse of what awaits them on leaving the quiet seclusion of study...
...Thanksgiving Jubilee, and the Courant and Record gladly fill their columns with the nonsense characteristic of the occasion. If an address on the "Ramifications of the Forensic Hyperbla," relying for its wit on poor spelling and lack of punctuation, be a sample of the performances, we cannot wonder that impromptu diversions in the way of bean and flour contests were acceptable to the audience. For a real "jolly wow" give us a Yale merrymaking...
...have not. On the contrary, it has been our impression that so nearly have all the statesmen or would-be statesmen, both good and bad, who have yet attained any note in this country, been well educated, that a self-educated man even has there been looked upon with wonder and admiration, as a sort of curiosity. More than this, all the public men of the worst sort, as well as the best, upon whom our eyes have rested, have been noticeably well-spoken, well-appearing, gentlemanly people, whom it would be impossible not to like as personal acquaintances, just...