Word: watching
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...happened to spend the autumn of 1893 in Oxford; and there was no afternoon, unless it rained, when a dozen or so of these games were not in progress between the different colleges. And it was a treat to go from field to field and watch them. Nor was this the only game in vogue. There were as many games of Rugby, for each college has a team in each or tries to have. This, too, is a game in which men who are light upon their feet and have not a quarter of a ton of beef and brawn...
...detailed report on the observations of the November Leonids has been issued by professor W. H. Pickering of the Astronomical Observatory. As in every year since 1897, careful arrangements were made for close observations of the sky on a favorably night, which occurred November 14-15. A vigilant watch resulted in the enumeration of 275 meteors, of which number 183 were Leonids--a larger proportion than in any previous years except 1898 and 1901. In 1998, there were 781 meteors recorded; three years later 431 meteors were counted in the eastern half of the sky. The search this year began...
Today is the last chance to watch the practice before the team leaves for New Haven. Every Freshman should be on the field this afternoon to cheer...
...unity and suggested that the class assemble informally in the Living Room of the Union once or twice a week. Bradley spoke of the encouraging work of the football team and urged every man in the class to go down to the field this afternoon and tomorrow afternoon to watch the practice...
...abideth faith, hope and love, and the greatest of these is love." Religion, as the prophet Micah defined it, remains here. "What doth the Lord require of thee, but to do justly, to love mercy and to walk humbly with thy God?" Here in the Chapel we cease to watch for the execution of the next task, or for the winning of the next pleasure, and we look up to the spacious firmament on high. Here we may all come for a few moments to walk with God You have nothing to gain by coming to the Chapel of Harvard...