Word: habitable
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After prolonged cheering, President Lowell spoke on intercollegiate contests as a means of college solidarity. "There is no more valuable habit in life that any man can acquire than the habit of winning; and athletics is a means to that end. But there are many men not on the crew, and many pale faces are seen about college." The habit of proper exercise is not as general as it ought to be. We are too much in the habit of thinking that it takes a specialist to enter athletics. This is not so. "You have heard me say that...
...that large numbers of students, who by no means lack sympathy with religion and who would acknowledge their own need of that aid in their religious life for which the Chapel stands, do yet, in the multiplicity of other interests and their failure to hold themselves to a fixed habit, lose altogether the advantage which they might derive from sharing in the public worship of the University...
Dean Fenn, in beginning, said that what a man gets out of college is commensurate with the purpose with which he enters college. A man should acquire efficiency and habit from a college course. Efficiency brings pleasure with it, and a pleasant life is the most efficient. College is often said to be a place of preparation for life, but it might better be said that college is life under peculiarly favorable conditions. In closing, Dean Fenn referred to four types of students,--one whose ideals are too high to be agreeable to those with whom he associates; another...
...same time it must be remembered that Memorial Hall has a habit of starting the year most auspiciously only to come to grief before its end. If history is not to repeat itself, the managing committee must see that the improved standard of food and service which is now in evidence is not lowered for a single...
Moliere, a Parisian, early acquired the habit of observation, and being possessed of the faculty of condensing into a single scene the striking traits of a whole class, made his works reflect the whole panorama of society. Jealousy is a trait to which he devoted much attention. Laying his finger on the spot most open to ridicule, he pilloried social characteristics that are as prominent now as then. He was a true precursor of the Revolution, in that he attacked the nobles, not as individuals, but as a class...