Word: habits
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...Cornell Era has a very just complaint against the Trustees of the village of Ithaca. It appears that a number of roughs were in the habit of assembling to watch the base-ball and foot-ball games of the Cornell students. The language and demeanor of the roughs was naturally somewhat distasteful to the residents of the neighborhood, and the matter was brought before the Trustees of the village. The Trustees passed a vote to the effect that "it should be unlawful for any person or persons to play ball anywhere within the corporate limits of said village (Ithaca), except...
...regret that young men so easily fall out of the habit of reading poetry, perhaps because it is often both tame and dull; if so, we can assure them that it is quite different with this book, for there is scarcely a line which does not seem to be filled with the natural outburst of a strong, enduring heart, the home of noble thoughts. We are sorry that the printer's work has been so badly done, for the numerous errors in that respect are sometimes serious obstacles to the pleasure of reading. The second edition should be more carefully...
...response to "The Crew," Mr. Van Duzer was called up unexpectedly, in the absence of the captain. He said that he would not say much, for he was afraid that a habit which he had been obliged to form, in speaking for the crew, would get the better of him and he would be found dunning the company for subscriptions. He was sorry that there was still need for money, but he hoped that need would be soon supplied. The sentiment, "The University Nine, - may they beat Yale!" was received with enthusiasm. Mr. Hooper, in reply, said that at present...
...Hall between ten or fifteen minutes after the breakfast hour begins, must come to one of two conclusions, - either that there is next to nothing fit to eat on the bounteously spread tables in the grand Alumni Dining Hall, or else that the students are guilty of the bad habit of Americans of rapid eating. Of course the former of these two hypotheses cannot be thought true even for a moment; hence we must accept the latter, and believe that in after years dyspepsia will not be an infrequent visitor to these gobblers...
...necessity. So long ago as 1800, at least, a need was felt of some record of the lives of fellow-classmen about to graduate, and a member of that class purchased a book, in which he wrote out brief accounts of his fellows. This became more or less a habit, and the Class-Book of 1806 has now been returned to the Library, on the death of the last member of that class. Later, men undertook to write out their own lives, but, not knowing what to put down, they often ran off into stories of college scrapes and nonsense...