Word: wakeful
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...Fresh. Wake up, fellows; Harry's treat again...
...remarks of these graduates seemed to wake up the meeting, which had been hitherto rather unenthusiastic, and the rest of the business was despatched with spirit...
...janitor, Kiernan, after the ringing of the first bell, was wont to go to the house of the clergyman who was to officiate and make sure of his attendance, and on his way back, he passed in the rear of Holworthy, clapping his hands to wake up the Seniors. It was generally understood in those days that when it was too dark for the minister to read, the monitors did not mark. In the latter part of the life of old Dr. Ware, when he had become almost blind, the undergraduates sometimes took advantage of this established custom...
...speaking of military drill he says: "Are we never going to wake from the delusion that various pursuits and occupations which war rendered necessary more than ten years ago are proper ingredients in a life of settled peace...
...near as I could afterwards ascertain, compounded of the most dissimilar and deadly ingredients. The horrors of that night I shall never know, for I passed the time in study with a friend in C. H. I returned to the room in the morning, however, in time to wake Sam for the examination. I did not in the least mind finding three fellows in my bed and two on the lounge, but took these little matters as a matter of course. Poor Sam! that night was a finishing touch to his chances of being dropped, and in August a note...