Word: watching
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...foot-ball men at Yale now wear pretty gold watch charms, appropriate trophies of last year's championship...
...person who opened my locker on Thursday and took from it a silver watch and chain, and a pocket-book containing a sum of money, will return the same, he will receive a suitable reward and no questions asked. J. W. Austin, 23 Grays...
...person who opened my locker on Thursday and took from it a silver watch and chain, and a pocket-book containing a sum of money, will return the same, he will receive a suitable reward and no questions asked. J. W. Austin, 23 Grays...
Snodkins and I take "Polly Kon" together. Snodkins' seat is just in front of mine, so that I get a very good view of Snodkins' back, as well as of the back of his note-book. The other day I thought I would watch Snodkins and discover, if I could, his method of taking notes. He came in just in time to be marked absent by the instructor, spent some very precious moments in getting off his coat, and arranging himself generally, but was at last, I thought, ready to go to work. But not yet. What good are introductions...
...interesting to watch the students as they gather. The lecture never begins before a quarter past the hour, and during that time the students straggle in, one by one. Each has an enameled cloth or leather pocket, in which he carries his papers and books for taking notes. He leisurely hangs up his hat and coat, spreads out his papers, and takes from his pocket an inkstand and a common steel pen. The blackened desks and streaked floors give ample proof of the catastrophes that have overtaken these inkstands in times past. An American stylograph would be an untold blessing...