Word: watch
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...fifties when American students began to study at German universities, this influence has grown until in all too many places it is a distinctly dominant force. The chief objection to the German method as pointed out in this Yale publication is its "soul-less" quality, Efficiency has been the watch-word; masses of information have been the result. This system has not only been applied to science, where it is natural, though mistaken, but it has gone into the field of literature and art. It is time to get away from this influence. It has been with us too long...
...Then we have all terrors and hardships without pleasures; we freeze as though we were in Russia, yet we have no Germans to kill and thus get warm, nor will any one come along and put us out of our miseries. So we suffer. The one solace is to watch the band. That marvelous sound-producing organization is even more handicapped by cold than we. The instruments of brass are helpless in the breeze, the drums alone are audible above a sea of discord. The agony of the band is the one factor that prevents a regimental mutiny...
...general effectiveness of a regiment. The best way to convince the University committee that this Corps is actually more than a mob of enthusiastic boys is to make that review one worthy of praise. It so happens that the members of the committee cannot be present in Cambridge to watch the daily progress of the regiment, and they will naturally judge much from what they see today. Make their impression one which will make them think of the University R. O. T. C. with high favor...
...days of long sleep and no work are within his grasp. In spite of these visions of a paradise at Cambridge we advise paying up at any cost for the arm of the Dean is long and the days of rest would precede months of hard labor. Our watch-ery today must be: On, on to Dane Hall...
...coaching, the Freshmen yesterday ran through a light scrimmage with the informals. No tackling was allowed as Tuesday's workout was the last hard practice of the season. L. H. Leary '05, field coach of the 1916 University eleven left the Navy Yard team which he is coaching to watch the 1921 squad and to criticise their play. F. J. Bradlee '15, M. J. Logan '15, and K. B. G. Parson '16, all of whom played in the 1914 Yale game, coached the team part of the afternoon...