Word: watching
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Announcement of the receipt of the resignation of Professor Coolidge '95 from the Board of Directors of the Watch and Ward was made to the CRIMSON last evening by Rev. Raymond Calkins '90, President of the Society. Professor Coolidge has been connected with the House Plan since his appointment last winter as House Master of Lowell House, one of the two new resident units now nearing completion...
Action no Professor Coolidge's resignation will not take place for a month it was understood from the Watch and Ward Society, the matter resting in the hands of the Society's Board of Directors...
...Foxcroft and the girls themselves serve the hunt breakfast in the old brick dining hall. Another great event is Alumnae Day in May when hundreds of Foxcroft parents and graduates drive over Virginia's slick concrete roads to Middleburg and out to Foxcoft to eat a luncheon and watch the Foxes and the Hounds (competitive divisions of the whole school) play at basketball on a neat grass court...
...little thing was so sleepy and tired from long hours . . . on the train that he toppled over drowsily and went to sleep at once." The kitten was named Bounder. He enjoyed playing with water (was apt to jump into tubs drawn for the Coolidges if they failed to watch him), delighted in shooting the chutes (back stairs) in a laundry basket, died of nervous exhaustion after a hilarious Fourth of July.* Thus wrote Mrs. Grace Coolidge in the December American magazine. She told of a handsome Maltese-Angora cat which was anathematized by Calvin Coolidge who, disliking fancy breeds, said...
...shall at any rate watch with a very real interest the forthcoming developments, inasmuch as they will be the first manifestations of a movement, which may affect many American universities. They are certain to be quite at odds with anything we have hitherto tried on any scale; as such they merit careful consideration. In the last analysis, however, we are secretly glad that the hostages of fortune will be drawn from other ranks than ours. --Yale News