Word: sleeps
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...intend to disparage regularity in sleep, diet or exercise, but we think that crew men can do all the work necessary without beginning to train as crews so early in the season. It seems to us that much more would be gained by giving to each man a course of exercise suited to him individually; he would thus be freed from the necessity of presenting himself at a definite hour each day. We hope for a radical change in this matter, so that hereafter rowing in the class crews will not be so much opposed to the enjoyment...
...serve as a substitute for the cards heretofore employed, and will also act as a more specific guide to the use of the new system of apparatus." It may also be serviceable to outsiders who follow a regular method of physical training. Then follow general remarks upon exercise, diet, sleep, air, bathing, and other subjects of the same class. In these are given first of all some general directions, and, later on, rules applying to special cases. The rest of the book is given to a full indication of the proper use of each apparatus in the gymnasium, stating...
...most enthusiastic advocacy that we have yet seen of athletic exercises among students says: "If the ranking system included relative physical proficiency and attention to sanitation, it would be a sensible enlargement of the schedule. Failure to allow sufficient time for sleep, imprudence in diet, or neglect of exercise, might be marked, like a failure in a lesson, or like an error in deportment. The main tendency of the student's life may be indicated more by physical shortcoming than by any mental lapse...
EDITORS HARVARD HERALD: One more suggestion in regard to Memorial, if the subject is not exhausted: Many have been the complaints about the unpleasant surroundings at the late breakfast table. Every time a man is unfortunate enough to sleep past nine o'clock, he is obliged to breakfast amidst sweepings and dustings and scrubbings, whose general character is not appetizing, to say the least. He is surrounded by a bulwark of chairs piled upon the surrounding tables, and is serenaded by the clatter of plates and hardware. Now all this might be obviated with very little difficulty. Why not have...
...Sherman has presented Mary Anderson with a valuable antique candlestick to carry in the sleep-walking scene in "Macbeth...