Word: sleepless
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Smith's lively and been comment "Happiness," "The Thunderbolt," and "A Sleepless Night," Plays now running in Boston, ends a number to which it is a pleasure to accord high praise...
...plan many weeks in advance. The last time the college went to Princeton in any numbers was in the fall of 1915 to watch Mahan's team give the Palmer Stadium its baptism of Harvard football. Five hundred undergraduates filled the flagship of the Fall River Fleet for one sleepless night and then enjoyed the Great White Way for an eve of celebration. Those days are but blissful memories; the Princeton games fortunately go on but without the old glamor. Today a baseball team without an "H" man on it and a tennis team which is only a reminder...
...After a sleepless night the CRIMSON began to see red, and on the morning of February 14 it threw a fit: "Only 600 men in Harvard University have thus far aroused themselves from their comfortable state of lethargy. . . . Will it take the very rumble of the enemy's guns to convince them? . . . Ordinary peace-time excuses are no longer excuses" Shades of Patrick Henry! Here is the CRIMSON transformed from a modest advocate of universal preparedness for social efficiency into a war conjurer. These words are wonderfully like the cries of other people in 1914: The enemy is coming...
...college men should be glad to see the Lampoon in such a flourishing condition financially. It is obvious that mere bulk is not necessarily an advantage. I have known periods, even in the history of the Lampoon, when it would have been a distinct disadvantage to all but the sleepless at the Infirmary, but during the past few months, I think, we have all welcomed extra pages. This time the twelve additional pages of reading matter not to mention the new advertisements--make the paper just long enough to carry us joyously through the intermissions at the Game...