Word: habits
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...happens that Harvard athletes run best when they are running for points. It is becoming a tradition that they arrive in this mid-winter meet. Harvard was slow in getting its first H-D-C victory, but since first crashing through in 1925, the Crimson has made it a habit, for Harvard has won four in a row under Farrell. Count up Harvard's winning totals of the past four years and you will find that the 200 mark has been surpassed. Neither of the others has touched 135 points in this period. It's dangerous business to count Harvard...
Among the three hundred and sixty-five other days that come but once every year, the 22nd of February is one of the more pleasant variety. March has an unfortunate habit of producing such unpleasantnesses as theses, hour examinations and overdue blizzards in amazing quantity, and Washington's birthday furnishes a welcome calm before the storms...
...American educational tradition will successfully result in a more wieldy form. Much doubt has been expressed in regard to the possibility of forming small, homogeneous groups out of the large heterogeneous mass of the College. It is a question of whether or not the experiments are socially practicable. The habit of becoming segregated into small groups such as the present fraternities has become so ingrained in the make-up of the undergraduates of today that the transplantation of the English system, that of separate colleges housing men picked from all three classes at random, seems more or less a vague...
...criticism from persons who thought it harmful to the true purposes of a university; at Harvard this criticism was especially strong. If Mr. Bingham has brought harmony and helpful understanding--and he certainly has--out of discord and confusion, his success is due in no small measure to his habit of plain speaking and of vigorous handling of elements widely separated in the Harvard scale. Comprehension by alumni in other parts of the country of what he has done and is trying to do will bring the approving support which he has already won at Harvard...
...ethical and artistic standards a campaign's success cannot be claimed until the sales records are used as proof. The correspondence of this measure of success with that of the Bok standards is apparent to anyone who examines the list of previous winners. Business is not in the habit of seeking more advanced standards without some practical motive, and it is a tribute to the judgement of Mr. Bok that his principles are finding such justification...