With artificial light and stiff chairs, and a school clock on the wall loudly ticking the seconds as they went by.
On 19 March 1999, the school's clock tower was gazetted as a national monument.
During the Battle of Singapore, the school's clock tower, for its height and vantage point, served as a headquarters for the Allied defenders.
But the statue isn't the only way Tillman is still being honored: Just a few months ago, in February 2015, the board of trustees at Clemson University voted not to change the school's clock tower, which is named Tillman Hall.
Favorites: I like plain clocks, like a Seth Thomas Regulator, or an Ansonia school clock.
At about 8 45 a.m., in the basement of the north wing of the school, an alarm clock set by Kehoe detonated the dynamite and pyrotol he had hidden there.
Rennie Mackintosh designed even the school's electric clocks, which are all synchronised.
Estela Bernabe, who has a fourth grader at the school and sometimes clocks 12-hour shifts as a baby sitter, said she thought she spoke for many in saying her absence was not politically charged.
Marclay, who had flown in from London the day before, was jet-lagged and disoriented: when he'd guided me into the installation, he stood in front of a closeup of an elementary-school clock, indicating 4 29 P.M., and asked me what time it was.
As I grew desperate to work better and faster, I began going to bed without doing any prep and getting up at 4am, forcing myself into a race against the clock before the school day began, relying on adrenaline to keep me focused.
