Word: wonderful
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Dates: during 1873-1873
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...other articles are upon subjects which can be taken directly from common text-books, and are simply statements of facts already well known. When we read the Natural Science and Agriculture, The Household and Young Ladies' departments, we are forced to wonder what constitutes a Western college...
...monotony of attending recitations by the same delectable employment. If this be the talk of quiet undergraduates, it is reasonable to suppose that the more demonstrative take a step farther, which brings them at once to the point reached long ago by the author of "Fair Harvard." What wonder that, beyond the vicinity of Boston, a college room is never thought of without the accessories of a cloud of tobacco-smoke, the remains of a dozen of champagne, and a crowd of students in the hilarious prosecution of a frolic...
However did I stand it then, I wonder, now it's past...
...third reform we call to mind is not so much a reform as an abolishment; but all appreciate it, and only wonder that a similar step was not taken half a century or so ago. We allude, of course, to the annulment of the law prohibiting smoking in the yard...
...there have been violations of good order, and of such a character as to call for severe measures, shows that not all the rules of the Faculty have been effectual. And when they have failed of their end, where dismission and suspension have been the penalties, it is no wonder that lesser offences have been frequent. Every one knows, too, that shouts of fire are heard as often now as they were Freshman year. Nor does the number of privates and publics for snowballing ever decrease because the men cease to snowball. It needs no seer to discover the reasons...