Word: habits
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...that yesterday afternoon the doors of Gore Hall were closed at three o'clock, and certain members of the faculty as well as many students were shut out from the building. The only explanation given us of this is, that last year when it grew dark it was a habit among students to light a match in looking for books in the alcoves, and that this year, to prevent any accidents that might follow from this practice, the library would be closed earlier on dark days. With all the inconveniences attendant upon getting books at the library this added annoyance...
...that we have referred to the freshman class there is one point on which we have received several communications and to which we wish to call the attention of Ninety-six. At the close of the lectures in English A a certain number of men have formed the ungentlemanly habit of scuffling their feet and in other ways distributing the instructor. It is never the intention to keep the class beyond the end of the hour, but they are supposed to remain till then and it is very discourteous to the instructor to treat him in any such manner...
...have to call the attention of the freshmen to the fact that they have a base ball nine which is playing games in Cambridge. It would seem that they were ignorant of this very obvious truth to judge from the number of men who have been in the habit of watching their nine play. At the game with Technology there were hardly half a dozen. It is discouraging for a team not to feel that some interest is being taken in its movements; to know that they are being watched by supporters instead of by an indifferent crowd...
...ought to be freed from the worry of seeing that everyone is measured for his gown on time. Then too a consideration of the press of work which the eleventh hour men put upon the tailors ought to be sufficient to prompt these members of the class to a habit of greater punctuality...
...Told at the House of Tunn-Chwing" is much poorer. It is far more ambitious in its nature, as it is a relation of the incoherent ramblings of an opium-smoking woman, shattered by the insidious habit which has mastered her. As such, it immediately invites comparison with Rud-yard Kipling's "At the Gate of the Hundred Sorrows," to which it bears much similarity in conception and to which, it is almost needless to say, it is infinitely inferior. And for several faulty English constructions in the opening paragraph, there is not the excuse of delineating an opium eater...