Word: habits
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1870-1879
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Harvard graduates were in the habit of reading our College papers, they would be surprised, not to say bored, by the recurrence year after year of the same topics of discussion. The debate on pessimism and the Nation had a long run; then came, at intervals, satires and poems condemning annual examinations; and as lately as last week the Advocate confessed its lack of originality by renewing the time-honored attacks on the marking system. The Crimson has also returned to a well-worn subject in printing, in the issue of April 18, an article on public opinion...
...individuals, and are sufficiently patient, even during the Mid-Years, to put up with the noisy rounds of Graeco-Roman practised overhead, and can endure with philosophic calmness Smith's hilarious "Jubilate to the 'unconscious moon.' " But, unfortunately, our patience is not infinite; and we must protest against the habit of certain occupants of the upper rooms in the south entry of Matthews, of throwing bottles down through the staircase shaft. Thus the necessary and much-frequented passage-way to the basement is made very disagreeable, if not positively dangerous. We are convinced that the gentlemen can find, with very...
...habit o' tellin' much to the women-folks, they make such a darned gabble." Can't you see here the verdant Freshman or more experienced Soph who has spent his summer with his pretty cousins, and accordingly "understands the ladies...
...CERTAIN Freshman who has been in the habit of spending the Sabbath in the bosom of his family during the past half-year, has aroused the admiration of his native town by appearing at church with a smoking cap and a cane...
...contestants being all good men, the result was a record in each case not only exceptional for Harvard but creditable for any American college. We cannot help reverting to the tardiness with which men enter their names. It was, we believe, with the intention of breaking up this bad habit that the plan of having secret entries was adopted. Men used to hang back, waiting to see who their opponents were going to be, and would enter or not accordingly. But now they can have no such purpose, and they should either make up their minds by a fixed time...