Word: watchful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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During my four years at sea, I found that engineers used the Ship's library more than Master, Mate and Steward put together. Often I used to stay awake in my watch below reading Plato, Virgil and Homer, and before I knew it someone would knock at my door and shout '"one bell" which my seafaring friends know to mean "time to get up and report below...
This writer after four hours on watch in the hot stokehold has rushed topsides to finish Homer's Iliad. Before he completed it a new box of books was brought aboard and then the fun began. Engineers when they heard that the representative of the American Merchant Marine Library Association was on board ran up the engine room ladders two steps at a time. The reason for this, this writer believes, is that engineers are apt to be more philosophically inclined and have more of the "monastic" spirit...
...recognition of fifty years of service to the law profession Joseph H. Beale '82, Royall Professor of Law, was presented with a gold watch from members of the Senior class, following his last lecture of the year yesterday. The award was made by Adrian S. Fisher 3L, following a short ceremony in Langdell Hall...
Inspector for the Soldiers Field event will be Colonel Leroy Collins of the First Corps area, who has been appointed to watch both Harvard and Yale units in action. Honored visitors will be the Overseers' Visiting Committee on Military and Naval Science and Tactics and several College deans...
...York. New York's Metropolitan Opera closed a month ago but one night last week the Opera House was alive with white ties and decolletage, turned out to watch the American Ballet dance three premieres in one evening. Igor Stravinsky, who wrote all three, was on hand to conduct. His Apollon Misagete had never been danced in New York. Le Baiser de la Fee had never been danced in the U. S. The Card Party had never been danced...