Word: bedded
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...such orders charged to them must be marked with the letters H. A. A., besides being signed with the writer's name as usual. All candidates for the team are required to assemble in front of Matthews, at 8 o'clock, every morning, and to be in bed by 10.30 every night...
...Under the extension at the rear of the building will be located the boiler room, in which will be placed a boiler of sufficient capacity to furnish steam heat for the whole building. The second floor will be taken up by two suites of rooms, each consisting of a bed-room and large study, with toilet and bath-room in common. Access to this floor will be had through a separate entrance in the eastern corner of the new block. The three upper floors will each contain two suites of rooms, similar in every respect to those upon the second...
...remember once reading, during the evening, an essay of several pages length, and, on going to bed, repeating it word for word, from beginning to end. De Quincey immortalized himself by his wonderful visions. There is that remarkable work of Cicero's on the vision of Scipio, a work that I have often thought must have suggested to Richter the idea embodied in his well-known Dream of The Universe. Bunyan is continually saying, "Now I saw in my dream." And thus a thousand and one instances might be cited, in which, merely as a flight of the imagination...
Carlyle wrote, "to-day is not yesterday." Probably the great philosopher conceived the gorgeously beautiful original thought, while sitting on the bed in the morning, yawning as though trying to swallow the room, and feeling his head to see if it was small enough...
...attended morning chapel, and seen the way in which it is taken by the students, will not be so harsh in his judgement. Running from bed to breakfast, and then to chapel, half awake, with a half learned lesson, is it surprising that a man under such circumstances should lose the religious significance of the duty? As a revielle, a police regulation to get men out of bed, it does us good service: as a purely religious exercise, we fancy very few would affirm that, as the fact stands now, it is honorable either to the students, or to their...