Word: morpheus
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...alarm clock effects of a loud cut-out and a sing-song auto horn throughout the length of Mt. Auburn Street just as the majority of the residents of Randolph, Claverly and the other Mt. Auburn buildings are about to surrender themselves to the soothing to embrace of Morpheus, merits a drastic cure. For the benefit of New York's commission, a variation of the Chinese torture is suggested, whereby all these destroyers of peace be sentenced to padded cells, where they may slowly starve to death to the tune of a thousand mixed auto horns...
...responsible for creating interest in his subject among the students who come to hear him. To expound its ins and outs to the class should be a privilege rather than a duty. But when a large part of that class comes with a fixed intent of communing solely with Morpheus, only a Disraeli or a Burke or perhaps a Fisher could unfix that intend. And the probability of getting such men is certainly considerably lessened when only the more meritorious students are admitted...