Word: habits
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Princeton delegate objected on a point of order, and all investigation was stopped. We have been shown a letter from a professor in Princeton College in which he says: "Although we deplore Ames' receipt of money on this occasion, this fact does not constitute professionalism, which is a habit." A second member of the team, Mr. George, had been since the beginning of the present college year, and is now a salaried teacher of field sports and other subjects in a preparatory school. A third member, Mr. Wagenhurst, who played in the games in the earlier part of the season...
...Drinking. From personal observation the writer knows that the habit of intemperate drinking has been greatly increased in at least one college by the fact that a large number of students accompany the teams to other colleges. It is considered "the thing" to drink then if at no other time...
...Senator.William H. Crane and company opened a two weeks engagement at the Hollis Street Theatre last evening in the new American comedy "The Senator." The play is a satire on the American habit of always being in a hurry. The play wrights have selected a field hitherto unworked-life at the capitol, and have produced a comedy that is admirable in every particular. Mr. Crane has found in Hannibal Rivers, the senator, a role peculiarly adapted to his talents, and his success in it may safely be said to be greater than in any role he has previously essayed...
...Creation is the expression of God's own nature, and we are beginning to think in the ology, not of a God that sits apart from nature, but of a God who is everywhere a pervasive spirit, omnipresent in all nature. The uniformity of natural law is but the habit of God, the method in which he acts. And so there is no distinction between the natural and the supernatural. There is nothing unthinkable in this conception. Miracles cease to become violations of natural laws, and is simply the evidence that there is a superior power at work...
...then referred to his own class of fifty-three members of whom 10 per cent. used intoxicating liquors, a much smaller proportion than the average class of today. None acquired the habit after leaving college, but those who had already formed the habit in college soon fell into confirmed drunkenness. It is during youth then, between 17 and 25, that a man's habits are formed. At that time he often has great confidence in himself that he will not transgress the limit which he calls soberness, but gradually he becomes more and more entangled until he reaches the border...