Word: sleeping
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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Just why this condition of affairs was allowed to exist will cause no one undue loss of sleep at this late hour. The presidential campaign is in full sway and it is high time that all good Republicans in our midst were banded together in an effective organization to promote the interests of their party's candidate. The meeting called for Monday night is for that purpose...
...track team and the crew have already gone into strict training for their spring contests with Yale and the baseball team will follow soon. This means that the members of these teams are in bed by 10 o'clock. Of all things, to as man who is training, sleep is by far the most important. Especially near a contest men find it very hard, even under the best conditions, to get the requisite amount of sleep...
...dormitories where the athletes live, but also in the streets near by. It is never ill will that causes a disturbance at night, but thoughtlessness pure and simple. A thoughtless noise, however, is just as effective as an ill-willed noise in keeping a man awake; and as sleep is of such vital importance to the teams, we ask every man to make a point first of keeping quiet himself and second, of reminding anyone else, stranger of friend, who may need the hint, of the necessity of quiet for the sake of the teams. L. P. DODGE...
...central figure of the play is Rameses II, king of Egypt, who gives up his throne and consents to be put to sleep for three thousand years on condition that when he wakes he shall have the love of every girl on earth. His mummy case, discovered at the end of the allotted time by Professor Scarabs of Harvard, is brought to Cambridge and set up in Robinson Hall. A great reward is offered to whomever succeeds in opening it. After various attempts have failed the case is finally opened by Bob Matthews, a Harvard Junior, who needs the reward...
...expression, and shows a desirable gain in clearness of outline and definition of thought, even if the style is not yet quite natural. J. L. Warren's the Crush" is somewhat conventional; F. Schenck's "The Pall of the Wild" is cleverly named, and, like R. M. Arkush's "Sleep Fifteen Minutes after Luncheon," strikes one as much truer to Sophomore human nature than one would like to imagine it. Both are well written. "Ex-Machina," the remaining piece of fiction, is amusing, but like all the stories in this number, painfully unheroic...