Word: wondering
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...wonder, then, that Yale has become thoroughly imbued with the "thug" system, and it is now time for all colleges who discountenance such practises to unite in putting a stop to them. What I would advocate is a careful revision of the rules in all intercollegiate contests in which Yale takes part, so as to exclude all manifestations of "Yaleism." For instance, since Yale takes advantage of the rule requiring three warnings to send a man from the foot-ball field, adopt a rule requiring only one warning; thus the Yale rushers would not be allowed two warnings without punishment...
...neglected, is an abomination of the first order. It is a shame that college presidents are actually promoting this demoralizing system. It would seem as if these worthies thought that colleges were instituted to collect a crowd of young bloods together that they might have a high time. No wonder so many young men cannot go to college because all this high living is so costly. If they refuse to pay the taxes for all sorts of fooling they are shoved aside as mean fellows, and this ostracism very few can bear. It costs a student at Yale or Harvard...
...grind up for Stubby?" Butterfield pricked up his ears at this, expecting to hear some sage advice as to the proper food for a young dog. "Oh, I shall give him chum's note-book and something from the reference shelves." Butterfield was startled, and then began to wonder what particular breed of dog the gentleman's pup belonged to. "I wish you'd let me take it a day or two; I should like to 'grind' some myself." He has a dog, too, thought Butterfield. "By the way, have you been out in Bob's dog-cart...
Grass widow. - Perhaps he does not feel at home in intellectual society. I should not wonder a bit if he were a perfect boor; they say he made his money but a short time...
...scholars. A learned and enthusiastic vindication of classical studies is combined with this glorification of Oxford. Indeed, the enthusiasm for the classical literature of Greece, Rome and England displayed in this volume by the Harvard students of 1810, strikes the modern reader as altogether unique - a matter for wonder and admiration in these days of laborious learning and little literature. Indeed, one may find in this early Harvard literature evidence that that revival in letters which was progressing so actively in England at that time - in the younger days of Byron and Wordsworth - had made its influence felt in America...