Word: wonder
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...anything else. They are not surprising, original or absorbing in subject matter, nor yet interesting for any novelty of treatment. They read as if they had been turned out for the English department to begin with, and afterwards much revised with a view to publication. One is inclined to wonder why they were published, unless as models of painstaking composition. If this is the case three are rather many for one number...
...step taken by the Musical Clubs in providing for a common manger, as will be recognized has obvious advantages. With the arrangements in the hands of one man preliminaries will be greatly simplified, and each club will know what to expect and what is expected. The wonder is that an improvement seemingly so necessary was not adopted long...
...readings included a criticism of Miss Rehan's acting last year in Boston in "The Wonder," which was the play in which Garrick made his last appearance. The selection from "Tom Jones" describing the visit of Partridge and Jones to see Garrick play "Hamlet" was also read...
With tragic suddenness, all this is snatched away and we are left to wonder how it is that such a man be taken out of a world that needed him. The ways of death are hard to interpret, but two things we know and it is well to recall them. The work of a man's life is in its depth, not in its length; in its quality not in its quantity. He might have lived to build a railroad, to be a useful citizen or to have a happy home, but one thing we know, though it had been...
...first impression that a visitor to the Trophy Room receives is a feeling of disappointment. The next is one of wonder that the Trophy Room of a College with so long and varied an athletic record, should be so bare and uninteresting and contain so few trophies, compared with the great number that its many teams must have gained. When the Gymnasium was built the room was set aside for the display of photographs of Harvard athletes and athletic teams, of baseballs and footballs won in competition, and of all flags, cups and other trophies which should come into Harvard...