Word: sleeping
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...that the last six men will sleep their last two nights within the Indoor Athletic Building's grim confines, University-wide reaction might well become a final sigh of relief. But the end of one dramatically unsavory incident in the student housing crisis of 1947 does not amount to any sort of end to the crisis itself. While the administrative handling of the unexpected influx this Fall has been smooth for the most part, and conspicuously creditable in intercollegiate comparison, room exists to point out specific shortcomings. Furthermore, in the face of the problem's continuing complexity some high imagination...
...fall out-to sleep...
...felt as though he had large clods of dirt in his eyes, and he knew that he would get no more sleep. Vag smiled softly at the wall; it had been worth it. The game-he remembered that almost clearly-had been the best he'd seen since before the war. A big noisy crowd, plenty of passing, plenty of color, plenty of everything. As far as Vag could recollect, we won the game, and afterwards; well, that was a little dim. There had been one cocktail party where who stopped in the middle of a sentence, muttered something incoherent...
With something of the air of a farmer hoping for rain, H.A.A. Director William J. Bingham '16 dreams about football crowds and probably counts turnstiles in his sleep. Yesterday he was cornered in the sanctity of his office in the Union rotunda. Less than 100 feet away, ruthless undergraduates were paying $15.00 for participation tickets and heaping great oaths on the Harvard Athletic, Association. Questioned about finances, Bingham smiled the sad, wise smile of the afflicted and said, "This year we will spend about $700,000 gross. Of this, $100,000 will come from the sale of athletic participation tickets...
...sense of real life by which to measure its wonder. The picture is saturated in a kind of allegorized romanticism that is curiously musty. There are moments when the film almost achieves what it works so hard for-the enchantment of the audience. But enchantment is closely related to sleep; all in all, sleep is what this exquisitely contrived but rather precious film is likelier to induce...