Word: sleeping
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...more complete Handbook of Developing Exercise to be used in connection with his system of physical examinations and charts. The first part of the book contains a number of hygienic rules based on the author's long experience. General directions are given in regard to exercise, diet, sleep, air, bathing, clothing, and the use of chestweights, which will be useful to everyone. Under each heading are given in addition special directions to be prescribed according to the characteristics of the individual. Four courses on the chestweights are described, comprising sixty-seven exercises, under each of which is an account...
...short poems and prose sketches, some of which have already appeared in the college papers, but most of which are now published for the first time. The book is divided into two parts, the first, called "First Strokes" includes pieces written before 1882. Some of the poems notably "Sweet Sleep" and "Accusation" show good ideas and a delicate appreciation, but, as might be expected, as a whole the style is crude and unfinished. "Jerusha Slum's Trvals" is a series of letters in the Samantha Allen style of literature and "Caleb Dinsmore, Jr." is a romantic and elaborate but slightly...
...train for St. Louis. One of the most magnificent of Pullman cars was provided for the party. As the train glided over the states of Ohio, Indiana and Illinois, the majority of the men endeavored to make up for lost time by taking prolonged naps. The only rival sleep found was whist...
After the concert, the students marched in a body to the Union Club, singing "Schneider's Band." Luncheon awaited them at the club house. Just before midnight they returned to the hotel, and, with minds relieved of all responsibility, enjoyed a good night's sleep...
...resting places by weary and snowbound pedestrians. Several cars were snowed up in the tunnel of the Fourth Avenue Surface Railroad. The passengers got out, but provender had to be lowered for the horses. In some of the down-town stores, it was thought best to have the employees sleep on the premises, as no means of conveyance could be gotten for them...