Word: wondered
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1880-1889
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...receiver to return them to the post office or to their rightful owner. We do not intend to blame the postman who discharges his duties in a perfectly satisfactory manner. When, however, we think of the large amount of mail which passes daily through his hands, there is little wonder that occasionally letters find their way into the wrong rooms. Besides, as we have said above, the letters are frequently misdirected. Now it is only right that every man, when such mistakes occur, should rectify them as soon as possible. Let no one allow a misdirected letter...
...wonder how anybody could have been found to accept the office of watchman in those times, not so very remote, when beating the watch was part of a gay young gentleman's evening's amusement. Canning, writing a dutiful, though stilted, letter to his uncle from Oxford, memtioned quite casually that, returning from a political debate at the coffee-house, he and six friends had fallen in with two watchmen who, as the result of this encounter, turpe solum tetigere mento. Even the decorous Charles Greville tells us how, after dinning at White's, he had a spar with some...
...undergraduate can but pause in wonder and question where was Brighton street ? And when the succeeding words are sung celebrating the fame of "Carl's," the similar question, who is Carl ? cannot but arise. Alas, Carl and Brighton street, with something of appropriateness, some will think, have departed from us hand in hand together, and their very names soon will be sounds familiar only to graduates of many years standing...
...subject of the marking system, the question of the examination system naturally arises. It is of course difficult to add to this subject anything beyond what is annually said in its condemnation by both professors and students. The thought that most naturally suggests itself, however, is one of wonder that today the problem sems no nearer solution at Harvard than it did when its discussion was first started an untold number of years ago. Every year condemnation of the system grows fiercer and more general Not only students, but professors of the most conservative habit of mind unite...
Freshman, again : "I wonder who that old duffer is." (Fact...