Word: habits
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...that the discipline of this institution tends toward the cultivation of manly and independent qualities; and we behold with pride, and make much of the fact, that Yale men are free from what we term the foppery and affectation of the Harvard undergraduate." With this exordium, which shows that habit will exercise its sway in spite of the best resolutions to the contrary, the Record, in the new spirit it has announced, forgetting all bygones, humbly states that "beneath the dandyish exterior of the Harvard man you will generally find the instincts and the breeding of a true gentleman...
...CONTRIBUTOR to the Advocate is said to be in the habit of sitting with his feet on the table, because he does not consider it democratic that the feet should be permanently below the head...
...many students, indeed, early hours may be really injurious. Social engagements, and the force of habit, which is too deeply rooted to be broken up in two months, prevent them from going to bed before midnight. And if prayers come before seven, they will have little more than six hours for sleep. If there is any good reason for the proposed change, the desires of the students will hardly affect it; but if, as seems probable, it is only a spiritless revival of a bygone custom, a well signed petition may very probably accomplish its end. We would suggest, then...
...chief complaint is that under-classmen have of late fallen into the habit of making themselves somewhat free in the rooms which have been loaned to graduates on Commencement Day, and have also felt it incumbent on themselves to fill quite a number of seats at the Alumni dinner. This conduct, though in the first instance it may be the result of thoughtlessness on their part, still is unpardonable, and it would be well in future for students who contemplate indulging in this kind of pastime, to pay a little regard to the feelings of the graduates. For they must...
...recitation-room, where "spiritual interest .... transforms duty into pleasure." It is felt in the shape of "increased earnestness in base-ball matters," in the gymnasium," and in the training requisite for various athletic sports. Drinking has vanished from "spreads." Profanity, which is "not so much an amusement as a habit," has been abandoned. "Joy beams from many a face," while on the countenances of the few unconverted sits "solemn, introverted repression." This state of things is due partly to the efforts of Messrs. Moody and Sankey, partly to those of a number of Rev. Presbyterian Drs. from New York...