Word: habits
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...caution is hardly necessary as to the extreme rapidity with which absences sum up when there is a confirmed habit of cutting uninteresting recitations on small provocation, and yet, probably, these swell the black list to a large extent. The apparent fallacy in the position is the exhorting of students to keep up an artificial state of attendance on recitations, while the experiment looks to ascertain the real disposition of students with regard to the matter. This, however, disappears when we remember that the test which the authorities are agreed to apply is an arbitrary and perhaps inadequate one, namely...
...press is counted among the Lost Arts, the crack of doom, or some other indefinitely distant period. Yet we trust the men who have caused this noise have done so unwittingly, and will show the good sense so peculiar to a Harvard undergraduate by abstaining from this school-boy habit of coming home yelling...
There are numerous other ways in which the Nation exerts a bad influence. . . . . It is pessimistic, and accustoms us to an arrogant and self-sufficient style of thought; and we fall into the same habit from reading its columns...
...means of redress. Their labors ended the committee make a report, stating, probably, that they are still in debt, and proceeding to levy an assessment which is, or is not, paid without one word of public comment on the manner in which the committee have performed their duties. The habit thus formed he continues through College, arguing that it would be impossible to influence his class, and therefore joining in the number, large or small he does not know, of those who are afraid to oppose what seems to be public opinion...
During our summer wanderings, wherever they may lie, many opportunities of observing human nature will be opened to us; people can seldom conceal their traits and habits effectually, even when they try; and seriously, I think much pleasure, and not a little "knowledge of character," may be gained by forming the habit of quietly observing the speech and customs of those with whom we happen to be thrown. The man who is always thinking so much of himself that he never thinks of other people, although doubtless he has happy thoughts, will find many a half-hour drag heavily, which...