Word: asleep
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...professionals this year seems to have resulted in little good so far. The work of the team in the first inning of yesterday's game was simply abominable; no excuse can be given for most of the errors which were made. Almost every man on the team seemed half asleep, and before they became awake again the game was lost. Even as it was there might have been some hopes of retrieving the poor work of the first inning, if the batting had not been atrocious. When a record of only two clean hits is shown, there seems but little...
...sneak thief entered several rooms in Holyoke House last night. F. E. Zinzeisen, '89, and P. Marquand, '89, room 25, lost money and jewelry. The thief entered No. 16 while the occupants, E. C. Hammond, '91, and H. W. Corning, '91, were asleep, and stole a large amount of money and jewelry. F. E. Keene, '91, room 27, also lost a number of valuable articles. All students living in Holyoke House are warned to lock their doors...
...that the whole pleasure and convenience in using the library should still be spoiled by careless management of the heating arrangements. The room should be comfortably warm (and I myself am not a fresh air fiend), but when it gets so hot that one is very apt to fall asleep and dream of purgatory, the study of serious matters is wrongly interfered with. As it is now, one must either be melted or open the windows, getting a bad cold either way; or be the victim of a dull headache, which makes it impossible to do any good work...
...Doesn't get his shoulders on. Gets a weak finish. Should put more life into his work. Rows as if he were half asleep. Must work more from his stretcher...
...spectacled youth caused much amusement in the library yesterday afternoon by falling asleep and snoring tunefully over his musty volume...