Word: watching
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...what is happening here at Harvard on January 24? According to the CRIMSON the examinations scheduled for that day have been postponed--one hour!--so that students will not be obliged to "watch the eclipse through the windows of the examination rooms." Did it not occur to the faculty that some of those who have examinations at this time might quite reasonably prefer to witness a total eclipse rather than the more common and less interesting phenomenon of a partial eclipse? Personally, I feel fortunate to be free, but I sympathize with those interested in the eclipse...
...Shapley advised amateurs, who wish to observe the eclipse properly, to provide themselves with smoked glasses and an ordinary pair of field glasses. "Among the interesting things for which to watch," he continued, "are the directions shadow bands on the ground take...
Rather than oblige students to watch the approaching eclipse through the windows of the examination rooms, it was decided to postpone the mid-year examinations which have been scheduled for Saturday, January 24. Instead of being held from 9 to 12, the usual hours, they will be held from 10 until...
Install better lighting facilities and comfortable chairs, attend to the acoustic problem if necessary, pack "Mem" to the doors the night before the Yale game, give a "long Harvard", and watch the scowls of those worthies turn into smiles! Why not smash another tradition while the craze is on warm up old "Mem"? Philip W. Rice...
...square", and the League for the Purity of American Humor is reported to be stalking the impious punster. Certain irreverent youths have suggested that this is a sewing-circle plot to clothe unprotected females in red flannel. It is plain that by all those, amused or amusing, who will watch the growth of these clandestine, colorful clubs, the Young People's Socialist League will be welcomed as the only "thriller" of a scarcely endurable season...