Torpid, Dismal

An undergraduate of Colby College wrote an editorial in the Colby Echo that bore reprinting in more than one other undergraduate daily. The title was: Our Most Prevalent Immorality. The thesis was: "If it is immoral to needlessly impair the body's vitality, then lack of sleep is Colby's most prevalent immorality. Students who ought to be firm-nerved, straight-thinking and clear-eyed go through their college course with a perpetual tired feeling, irritable, sluggish-eyed and languid-brained. They sit torpidly through classes and wonder why the professors are...

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