Word: watching
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...examined on a certain day in a certain branch of study are given printed papers bearing the same questions it would seem the most natural way for the men to get possession of the paper before the examination. This, unfortunately, is seldom if ever practicable. The printing is watched with the most jealous care, and as soon as the papers come from the press they are safely placed under lock and key, where the wicked student has no hope of effecting an entrance. Knowing that to obtain a copy of the paper is not practicable, the ingenious young man, whose...
...Friday, thieves stole clothes which had been left by washerwomen at the door of students' rooms in Thayer; it is also reported that one room was entered and a gold watch taken. One of the thieves, a Cambridge "mucker," has been captured, and part of the property recovered...
...celebrations be given into the hands of the students, as the committee proposes, there would be an end, we think, to such noisy and untimely proceedings; then every man will feel responsible for the general good conduct, and the disorderly spirits, instead of having to evalde the few stray watch men, will find their movements watched by the large body of orderloving students. At other colleges when such liberty has been allowed, no complaint is heard, and it has been found that if students are entrusted with power there is no tendency to abuse it: on the contrary they take...
...game played yesterday afternoon by eighty-eight against the Brown freshmen was, in a way, interesting, inasmuch as it showed pretty plainly what must be done in order to win the game at New Haven next Saturday After watching the careless playing of our nine during the tedious two hours that the game lasted, we are led, in all kindness and good will, to offer a few suggestions. Now we offer our advice simply because we think that the team is capable of improving its play by following it, and because we cannot believe that success is to be attained...
...present at the games played by his class team. Aside from the mere question of duty, however, we think that men will be well repaid for their trouble. It is not a very bad way to spend a few hours to loaf upon the benches in the sun, and watch a game in which one has a, so to speak, personal interest, or at which one has the privilege of being present "without money and without price...