Word: watch
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...watch thy firelit face the while...
...rest within a week, and just the nicest people in the city were going. Will was in full dress, and he looked real handsome I tell you. We were a little early, so we had time to look around some and see who were there and to watch the fresh arrivals. As all the tickets had been sold privately we had a chance to sit with friends, which made it ever so pleasant. In our party were Miss F., the Misses H., Mr. C., and Mr. L., and a strange gentleman, - a Senior, I believe. The gentlemen were...
...hours of the afternoon have dragged very wearily. I got my sofa moved to the window, where I had a prospect down the Yard. But as an all-day spectacle the Yard is not a success. I'm going home to-morrow to convalesce, and I rejoice, meanwhile, to watch the hurrying to recitation of those whom the rainy weather has not induced to cut. Presently this little bustle is over, and nothing varies the dreary, brown monotony of the steaming Yard, except here and there the bright green spot which denotes the passing, verdant Freshman, or the umbrella...
...HARSH comment was made on the Princeton-Harvard game last Saturday by the man who said that the Harvard team seemed to think there were not enough spectators on the benches, so they stopped playing to watch the game...
...must confess, that, however accurate its information in regard to doings at other colleges, those at Harvard have not always been correctly reported. When the World has, by some means or other, obviated this fault, there will be no drawback to the pleasure and interest with which we shall watch for the weekly appearance of its College Chronicle...