Word: eying
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Amherst must, however, be congratulated on having a faculty so broad minded as to recognize the fact that students are not boys, to be trusted only within range of the proctor's eye, but men, capable of governing themselves, and of exercising surveillance over the few unruly school boys, who, by some accident, succeed in entering college...
These stereopticon views with which Mr. Bowen illustrated his own views upon alma mater, give a capital representation of life at Harvard. They comprise birds-eye views of the college and its surroundings, pictures of the buildings and of their interior, pictures of the yard, and all the other scenes so well known to us. Nor are the students themselves neglected. There is a view of Memorial in full operation, of a base-ball game on Holmes, and of the Harvard Princeton foot-ball game on Jarvis. The torch-light procession also is depicted accurately and strikingly...
...these men, four are trying for pitcher's place-Snow, Austin, Palmer and Dickinson. They are practising constantly under the watchful eye of Mr. Winslow, but have not as yet got a good control of the ball; although some of their curves are promising, they do not seem to be able to make them effective, and hard work will be necessary to remedy this...
...eye observes the growth or the decay...
...cold, dark waters which rush beneath the granite arches. This man was lured by his deadly enemy to a quiet place at a quiet hour and murdered. Can we not picture the sudden grapple and the terrible struggle, upon which the cold stars gazed down so unpityingly? No eye saw the savage blow, no ear heard the victim's shriek, as he was flung from the parapet. The night was deaf, and the darkness was blind, and nothing remained to tell the story but the clotted handful of the murderer's hair which the police took next morning from...