Word: sleeping
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...runs, and, by any ordinary playing, the 'varsity would easily have beaten out this score, but their aggressive work was simply lifeless. They lost a chance to score in the first with two men on bases and no one out, and, from that time on, they went to sleep. Toward the close of the game, they realized that something was needed, but seemed unable to throw any vigor into their play. However, probably no one, more than the nine, recognize their poor showing and every effort can be expected from them to better matters...
...bright and entertaining style. "The Sudden Conversion of Deacon Enoch Grubb" is rather weak and flat. There is not much of a plot and the form is not good enough to make the story interesting reading. "Reaping Tares" by H. H Chamberlain is a very pretty story. "Sleep" by C. G. Alexander is a piece of poetry rather above average college verse...
...psychology of imitation. He finds hypnotism nothing essentially different from the normal mental processes, the peculiarity being that the imitative faculty is exercised under conditions in which the ordinarily prominent self-assertiveness of the will is in abeyance. The hypnotized state closely resembles that of normal drowsiness or sleep, with the addition of a peculiar susceptibility to suggestions of the hypnotizer...
...being hypnotized is not limited to people of nervous temperament or weak wills. There is nothing extraordinary about either hypnotizer or subject, but the former must be skilled in the art of making fitting suggestions, the latter must desire to be hypnotized, making the effort to go to sleep while giving attention to any expressions of the will of the hypnotizer. When successfully hypnotized the subject is still awake to the voice of the hypnotizer and can converse with him. Having now no desire to make prominent his individual will the subjects capacity for imitation, which is ordinarily marked...
...first taste of the unpleasant side of the +++. The porter had not been warned that be would do well to make up some of the berths beforehand. When the crowd came poring in on him he was overwhelmed with demands. The electric service of the car was allowed no sleep: bells were singing incessambly. The train was an hour late in starting so the men had a masquerade ball and athletic games on the station platform. Pink, red, and blue bath robes were in order together with dress suits and users. It was a weird spectacte and caused...