Word: watchmen
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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companion to Olivia O. Prescott, '89 Muslin, her maid G. C. Bullard, '89 Choruses of peasants, girls, flunkeys, watchmen, nuns, and monks...
...practice has grown up as a result of the recent robberies in the yard. A student in Matthews was aroused last night by one of the night-watchmen and requested to get up and close his door, which he had left open...
...experience of a number of students in losing their property by the visitation of thieves early Monday morning out to be a salutary lesson not only for the students themselves to whose carelessness or thoughtlessness the loss was partly due, but also for the night watchmen who are supposed to be on guard to prevent such an occurrence as we are compelled to chronicle today. It seems very strange that four rooms in the dormitories in the yard should have been entered and robbed and yet that nobody, not even those on duty, should have discovered the fact until late...
...college-yard watchmen being off on a holiday yesterday, a swarthy son of Italy took advantage of their absence and discoursed sweet strains from a wheezy hand-organ in the yard. His efforts were specially appreciated by the dean and bursar, in front of whose offices he played several encores...
Once outside, the freshmen collected in a body, and cheered right lustily. This incensed the sophomores, who promptly formed and made a rush upon eighty-nine. For fully half an hour the classes surged back and forth, unmolested by proctors or watchmen, and then dispersed. So far as could be judged in the darkness eighty-eight got the better of the rushing...