Word: wonderful
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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FOOT BALL AT BOWDOIN.-At last Rugby foot ball has been fairly inaugurated with an association to back it. The game seems to meet with the warm support is deserves, and has clearly come to stay. The only variety of foot ball worthy the name, it is a wonder that it has not been taken up in earnest before. There is a time between the freezing up of the regulation fall sports and the coming on of winter, which is splendidly adapted to foot ball. -[Orient...
...that we have heard so much about lately. They are easy to take and are so varied that they cannot become tiresome. All the signs can be read in the photograph as clearly as in the original, and snob. is forever sending the pictures to his fair friends, who wonder what on earth the sign of "Boarders Wanted," "Hair cut and shave, 50 ets.," or "Reserved for Ladies," can mean. I will say nothing about the uses of a camera during the summer, they are too obvious to mention; but if any one will call at my room...
...grown so much better that the latter amount of prayers is sufficient? Is there an evolution towards no prayers at all? Will two prayers a week be enough in the years to come? Are our authorities to determine the exact minimum amount of prayers that the student needs? What wonder that infidelity is ripe when such questions as these become pertinent ones...
...were surprised to hear not lony ago of a man who said he had not taken a single book from the library during the whole four years of his college course. It is a confession that ought to shame a man, and we wonder that anyone should care to make it. The library is without doubt the most useful and valuable institution connected with the University. It is one of the two or three largest libraries in the country. That a student should go through college without once drawing books from it, it indeed surprising. Nothing can be easier than...
...cease the afternoon before, and begin the morning after Thanksgiving day, and suit their actions accordingly,- which means that most of them go home, stay over Sunday, and come back only to hear of small audiences in chapel, and of the numbers attending recitations being so reduced that they wonder at any attempt at all to hold recitations should be made...