Word: drowsyness
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The tired seventh-grouper may soon look for new reenforcement in his semestral battle against the foreclosure of probation. Although ordinary lecturers have difficulty in impressing drowsy auditors, experimenters now claim success in educating persons in their sleep. Live-wire intellectual bootleggers are, it is rumored, watching for practical developments...
A belated student returning to his dormitory at an early hour Saturday morning discovered the fire in Delafield's room at 84 Dunster Street. His frantic pounding on the door in an endeavor to rouse the sleepers brought only maledictions on his head from the drowsy inmates. When at last...
Speaking of the Paris Conference: "Mr. Sullivan seemed to be sure-footed and to know his way about the diplomatic crevasses-cool, alert, distinguished and clearheaded. When he lunched with Balfour or Lloyd George his seat appeared to be the head of the table. To such languorous notes as Peace...
In answer to innumerable proddings the publishers of Holst's "Planets" at last sent the parts thus enabling Mr. Monteux to fulfill a promise of long standing. Holst is an Englishman of Scandinavian extraction, and might have been expected, from the qualifications to be a loyal follower of Grieg. But...
This humble desire to have one's name perpetuated is very noble, and all the industry, toil, and diligence applied in the whittling very praiseworthy. The melodious drone of the instructor and the sleepy quiet of the drowsy students are strong incentives, perhaps, for all this extra-curriculum work; for...