Word: habits
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...each recurring examination period, an abuse which has long existed becomes especially irritating. Time after time we have censured the carelessness of some students with regard to their conduct in the library. Loud talk and noisy shuffling has become with some men a positive habit. Within the last two days, certain students have been the cause of great annoyance to the readers by their careless method of work. This subject is discussed and censured twice a year regularly, but each time the abuse is revived. Such a practice cannot be too severely rebuked. The selfishness displayed is peculiarly irritating...
...path. By this means only can the paths be removed. It is useless to remonstrate. The man who uses the path most, best realizes its value, and therefore can hardly be expected to forego, unless met by some convincing argument, a practice which has already become with many a habit...
EDITORS DAILY CRIMSON. - I should like to call attention to the behavior of certain freshmen in French I, at the Friday morning recitations. A number of these fellows, who are evidently ignorant of the etiquette not only of college but of common life, have the habit of leaving the lecture room immediately after the roll call. They thus get the credit of going to a recitation, and still spend the hour as they like. Unhappily they do not seem to realize that in their conduct they are guilty of grave discourtesy to the instructor, - a discourtesy which does not come...
Whatever you do, do it with all your might. Avoid being an amateur. The essential thing is the habit of thinking and working. There is no pleasure in vacation unless work comes before and after it. Begin to acquire the habit of work, and the effort to keep it lessens. Let the man of leisure remember the debt he owes to the public for its protection of himself and his property. He can pay this debt by working in public undertakings and charities where no pay can be given. But there is room nowhere for the dabbler...
Politics is a field where earnest workers are much needed. Discard the habit of sneering at politics and politicians. A college professor once committed a murder; it would be rash to assume that all college professors are inclined to homicide. It is the duty of every man of brains and leisure to go into politics. Be in sympathy with your age and country, - your country especially. Anglomania is synonymous with a weak intelligence and an imperfect education...