Word: sleeping
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Physiology and Hygiene. Special subject: The Importance of Rest and Sleep to Students and Men in Training. Prof. Sargent. Sever...
...freshmen feel the need of sleep since the classical lectures have been discontinued...
...pretty much of a democrat. It is a common remark in the college that there a man is estimated at his real worth. and all pretense and conceit is covered with ridicule. During the past fifteen years a wonderful change in the undergraduate life has taken place. The sleep of the Cambridge citizen was once broken by the uproarious singing of students in the streets. Now it is very rare to hear any boisterous midnight singing - such out-door singing as there is being confined to the college yard, where it seems appropriate and pleasant. The old tricks upon property...
...YORK, Nov. 18th, 1882. - Columbia may well be called the Rip Van Winkle of American universities, for she surely has fallen into a sleep from which there are no signs of her waking before a great deal of the sweet bye-and-bye has become part of the happy long ago. Everything seems to have come to a standstill. Foot-ball, for which the fall regatta was abandoned that it might occupy all our attention, seems to take it out in occupying. The cricket club is non est, and cannot attract enough attention to get up a decent funeral. Base...
...doesn't reflect especial credit on the class that a member of '86 went to sleep in a German recitation recently, and another amused himself by rolling a marble down the floor to the instructor's desk. These incidents, however, we are glad to hear are not participated in by more than a few, who will probably learn better as they grow older...