Sleepless

Last week four robust youths, four healthy girls, students at George Washington University, Washington, D. C, offered their bodies to the Medical and Psychological Departments of that college for experimentation. Professors conferred. The specimens were examined. The experiments began. For a day the subjects went about their business as usual. In the evening they were sent to the theatre, after which their blood-pressure was examined. On the afternoon of the second day they went to the country and watched a youngsters' ball game. Then a blood test was taken. Some drove dummy automobiles. Professors sat beside them, observed how they did it. Little circles now began to appear under the eyes of the robust specimens. For in the course of these experiments they had never once gone to sleep. That was the experiment.