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...bonfire. A hugh pile was soon collected in front of University, and quickly kindled. As soon, however, as the wood was fairly burning, the nightwatchman appeared on the scene with buckets of water and nearly extinguished the fire. but eighty-eight, nothing daunted, poured on kerosene, and, when the watchman returned to the basement of University to fill his buckets, locked him in. Masters of the field, they now began to feed the fire with barrels, stuffed with shavings and paper saturated with kerosene, cart wheels, filched from a neighboring wheel wright's shop, front gates, fence rails...
...boathouse is at the foot of the incline on which the quarters are situated. There are the boats, with John Smith to watch over them, and most zealous watchman he is. Besides the new shell built by Waters, there is the old '82 shell ready for an emergency, and a pair oar or two. The boathouse is a comparatively venerable old building, having served for Bancroft's crews and been removed from its original situation. Both Columbia crews have arrived, but Yale has not yet made its appearance. The university crew of Columbia is much lighter than...
...their observation, and to report them to headquarters; second, rooms are unlocked and desks opened; third, that playing cards are secretly taken from the rooms; fourth, that officers of the college have been seen listening at doors and gaining admission to rooms under false pretence; fifth, that the night watchman has been seen peeping into lighted windows on the first floors; sixth, that railroad officials have been invited to note down all students leaving town and to report their names; seventh, a barber has been questioned by members of the faculty and threatened for withholding information...
...wonder how anybody could have been found to accept the office of watchman in those times, not so very remote, when beating the watch was part of a gay young gentleman's evening's amusement. Canning, writing a dutiful, though stilted, letter to his uncle from Oxford, memtioned quite casually that, returning from a political debate at the coffee-house, he and six friends had fallen in with two watchmen who, as the result of this encounter, turpe solum tetigere mento. Even the decorous Charles Greville tells us how, after dinning at White's, he had a spar with some...
...bursar's office, the office of the superintendent of buildings, and the janitors' offices. At night, keys can be obtained at the president's house, janitors' rooms in Stoughton, Wadsworth House, Holyoke House, 10 Church street, at 6 North avenue (Mr. Eveleth's), and in the possession of the watchman and fireman...