Word: wondering
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...will be "to combat, not foster the growing spirit of Harvard indifference, than which no worst pest was ever sent from below," This certainly is a very worthy endeavor, but we feel that the writer has made an implication which is decidedly untrue to college life at present . We wonder on what grounds the Advocate can maintain that there is a growing spirit of "Harvard indifference," The term is one which we believed had almost passed out of use, at least was fast becoming a nonentity. Traces of it still remain, it is true. but who can say justly that...
There was another feature in Saturday's meeting which, now that we have had it, we wonder has not been thought of before, namely the playing of the Banjo and Mandolin clubs. This was certainly a pleasant way of filling in the gaps, between the events a bore which has to be endured. We trust that it is the beginning of a permanent custom. In every way the meeting was a pleasant contrast to that of a week ago and other managements may profit well by this year's experience...
...tranquility. "Now the age which followed Chaucer was one of unusual political activity. Either men did not write at all, or they wrote in a serious, controversial style, removed as far as possible from poetical sentiment. With their minds full of the important disputes going on around them, what wonder that they found no time for poetry...
...wishes and that their place as representatives of Harvard was quite as responsible as that of the athletic teams. For half an hour before train time men with bags. +++ mandolins, coats, umbrellas, c n s and hat boxes, came straggling into the station on Kneeland Street much to the wonder of by standers who had never been just such a "troupe" before. When the gates were opened there was a stampede for the special car. The itineraries provided by the Pennsylvania Railroad were given out, several to each man, just before eleven and at each stop as far as Springfield...
...exception it would be hard to accumulate a more pointless collection of sketches. The exception referred to comes first, and is ready not bad. The second is a fair bit of description but is destinctly not a College Kodak. After reading the third over three times, we continue to wonder why it was printed. The fourth is the work of a cynic and the fifth seems very far fetched...