Word: watch
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...terra firma cut off by the flames, we print the following: "A fire ladder has been purchased. Two ladders long enough to reach the highest windows in the College dormitories are now kept in the Yard to serve as fire-escapes in case of need. At night a watch is kept about the buildings, with a special view to the early discovery of fire...
...custom, for many years, to watch the crew before the annual race; and for this purpose I went, once yearly, to the boat-house in Cambridge, and, many times to the Milldam in this city, opera-glass in hand...
...were blest with assurance tried to conceal their diffidence by a sort of familiar impudence that was anything but creditable to their training. Others, of a temperament more like my own, betrayed their confusion by blushing, stammering, talking like idiots, and playing alternately with their gloves and their watch-chains. All this was very entertaining, but at the same time it was so difficult to discover a man whose behavior was not either offensive or intolerably stupid that I confess that I was very much disgusted...
...Record states that the time-keeper for the race at Springfield stopped his watch when the winning crew passed the line, but failed, for some reason, to consult it immediately: "When it was consulted it was found to be running, and the announcement was simply the judgment of the time-keeper, and as such cannot be relied upon." It says further, that Mr. L. J. Powers, President of the Charter Oak Park at Springfield, took the time of each mile, and according to his watch Yale made the four miles in 21.01. This is undoubtedly more nearly right than...
...Comparison."I love to watch from Holyoke's noble height...