Word: habits
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...ideal method of instruction. Students can learn from each other where there is a free expression of opinion and a man may get a world of good from the very absurdity of his questions and ideas if he only speaks them and has them corrected. The very habit of expressing ones opinion before others is of itself an exceedingly valuable thing, but it is a habit rarely found in college men. It is easier to take things for granted than to ask about them; it is much less humiliating to be a silent fool than to advertise ones folly...
...decidedly poor. The defense is very weak, especially at the centre and tackle. The tackling is very high and the men show no knowledge of breaking up the interference. In the offensive work the interference is exceedingly loose and very slow to start. Some are in the habit of starting before the ball while others are not soon enough. The blockers fail often to get men out of the play; the whole play is slow, especially in lining...
...fall. Now that college is open the number of candidates is larger and the work still more interesting and exciting. Moreover, we have good coachers, the great key to Yale's success. The year then, must look cheerful at its beginning. But this is not enough. It is a habit with years and especially Harvard years, to open with many cheerful prospects and then to prove bitterly blue and sad at the end. It may be bold, but we venture the suggestion that if every man in this University made up his mind to keep himself and his friends cheerful...
...field the team played well, but at bat they left much to be desired. There seems to be no good reason why they should have fallen back into the pernicious habit of knocking balls into the air. Twenty-eight times the ball was hit, and seventeen times it went into the air. This is altogether bad and needs permanent rectifying...
...considerable amusement. If they all would stop and think seriously of the unfair advantage they take of John's weakness and of the gross injustice they do both to him and his family, we believe there would be none so unmanly or inconsiderate as to continue the abominable habit. Old John is old and feeble enough as he is; let him have every chance to pass the last years of his life as happily as possible. The college will miss him when the time comes for him to go and it seems an inhuman act to force...