Word: sleeping
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...every place is like every other place; and then when they are tired of changing stations and police they will congregate in knots in great cities, which will consist of club-houses, coffee-houses and newspaper offices; the churches will be turned into assembly rooms; and people will eat, sleep and gamble to their graves...
...could not stop these wedges but later on they succeeded and Worcester often lost the ball on four downs. Neither side punted at all, the game was wholly a rushing one and when the freshmen were on the defensive they were apt to forget their work and go to sleep. In the second half the Worcester men weakened, out their opponents did not seem to mind hard work and made great gains through the centre. Whitman, the quarter-back and captain, did all the goal kicking for Harvard and made some very pretty kicks...
Yesterday evening at Appleton Chapel Dr. Lawrence's text was from Acts, 13th Chapter, 36th verse, "For David, after he had served his own generation by the will of God, fell on sleep...
...Monday, the 22d, at 7 o'clock, the men met at the Boston and Albany station and boarded their special sleeper for Chicago. After two hours spent in running about the car the men formed into two parties; those who wanted to go to sleep, and those who wanted to make a noise. The sleepy men finally got the best of it, that is to say, those did who slept through the shifting of the cars at Albany. Tuesday morning after breakfast at Syracuse, the men amused themselves by watching the engineer trying to cool...
Outing for December is not especially interesting though it contains several worthy articles. It begins with a serial story "In a Far Countree." The idea is original, being no less apparently than the adventures of a hunter who, awakening from a sleep, finds himself about the size of an ant. His curious adventures are vividly portrayed; "Shasta of Siskiyou," another unfinished article, treats of Northern California. It is by Charles Howard Shinn. Following this are articles on "r lash Light Photography," by W. I. L. Adams; "Two Days," a poem by C. P. Shermon; "A Vermont Fox Hunt...