Word: watching
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Bryce, President Hadley of Yale, and President Wilson of Princeton. On these follows "A Leaf of Bay," a simple and musical two-stanza ode in praise of a warrior who has conquered and may now rest. The collocation suggests that the allusion is to President Eliot, who certainly will watch the young men with undiminished interest as they "look toward the fight," but whether he will be content to rest "careless of the war about" is doubtful. The other pieces of verse show differing degrees of maturity of thought, poetical feeling and constructive skill. The most ambitious of these...
...close of Coach Haughton's speech, he was presented with a watch in token of the appreciation of the graduates for his work. Major Higginson presented all the members of the team with small gold footballs in memory of their victory...
...consider what the team has done in spite of the meddlesome interference of the Faculty and Corporation. Therefore I say instead of dipping a wrinkled thumb into the situation which at the best has been a hodge-podge mess of pottage, better to stand aside in dignified silence and watch. Then if football or any other sport does not by itself earn the justification of its independent existence, by all means step in and instantly abolish. Don't hang another millstone around its neck and say, "Linger on." That is if winning or losing makes any difference. W. PETDO
...carried away by the first rush of the great game of life. That is expecting you to be more than human. But I do ask you, after the heat of the game, that you draw breath and watch your fellows for a while. Sooner or later you will see some man to whom the idea of wealth as mere wealth does not appeal, whom the methods of amassing that wealth do not interest, and who will not accept money if you offer it to him at a certain price...
...first you will be inclined to laugh at this man, and to think that he is not smart in his ideas. I suggest that you watch him closely, for he will presently demonstrate to you that money dominates everybody except the man who does not want money. You may meet that man on your farm, in your village, or in your Legislature. But be sure that, whenever or where ever you meet him, as soon as it comes to a direct issue between you, his little finger will be thicker than your loins. You will go in fear...