Word: sleeping
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...mother Earth is lying down to sleep...
...Philosophical Club met Wednesday evening at 44 Matthews. Professor Norton read a paper by Grenville Stanley Hall on "The Sleep and Dreams of Laura Bridgman." A committee was appointed to confer with the Art Club and Finance Club in regard to the proposed course of lectures in Sanders Theatre. The next meeting of the Club will be held on Thursday, January 23; subject for discussion, "The Effects of the Study of Philosophy...
...Hamilton Monthly has articles on a dead thing and a dead person: Civil Service Reform and William Cullen Bryant; would it not be well if both were left to sleep in peace...
...morning, for instance, instead of enjoying a quiet sleep, and getting up at a reasonable hour, we are roused by the relentless Jones with his prayer-bell. There is no instrument of torture yet devised by man which can cause more misery than a loud bell rung early in the morning. It is especially disagreeable when one has been up late the night before at a political or temperance meeting. The pretext on which it is rung, too, is a frivolous one. If a man insists on going to prayers, he can surely be awakened without rousing all the victims...
...unpleasant to be roused from a heavy sleep, how much more unpleasant is it to have to get up and go to prayers! Our own personal experience in this matter has not been very extensive, but we can easily imagine what it must be. We are happy to say that we made the acquaintance of a very gentlemanly physician this summer, who told us never to be out in the morning until after prayer-time. We promised to obey his instructions faithfully...