Word: sleeps
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...half-back, and Thompson, smapback, whom the Harvard game had completely used up. Those who watched the game here closely will appreciate the extent of this loss, especially as there was no fit substitute to take Thompson's important position. The team had also lost two entire night's sleep, coming and returning from Cambridge, through their foolish buoyancy of spirit, a fact that of itself would account for the loss of considerable of that snap and vim, so valuable on a foot ball field. You may accordingly see that Pennsylvania had the same excuse for their poor showing...
...Cricket Club seems to have aroused itself from a sleep of nearly two years...
...proctors on one side and the fellows on the other, spend hour after hour in trying to outwit each other. Numbers in the end always prevail, and festivities commence at about 11 or 12 o'clock. The noise and disturbance continue till three o'clock, to the disgust and sleep-lessness of the townsmen...
...yachting set free from costly suppers, tyrannical sailing-masters, and the endless war of keel and centre-board. The cruising canx is a craft in which a man can sail or paddle in rough or smooth, deep or shallow water; in which he can travel by day and sleep at night, and which in case of necessity he can take under his arm, and drag around an impossible rapid, or over a portage from one stream to another. No other craft permits its owner these priceless privileges, and hence the canx, having made that possible which was before impossible...
EDITORS HERALD-CRIMSON.-Many students are unable to sleep well after hard study without first drawing the blood from their heads by bodily exercise. They ought to spend an hour in the gymnasium at the close of their day's work, and go to bed immediately on returning to their rooms. It is presumably to allow this that the gymnasium is opened in the evening. But the benefit is lost to a great extent by closing at so early an hour. Exercise is stopped at 9.30. The student must leave his study before 8.30. To go to bed immediately after...