Word: habit
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...feeling is that a person who has enjoyed athletic sports cannot help enjoying them through life. Personally I prefer those sports which do not need an exaggerated development of muscle. They are more useful in youth and in later years. A man must continue the habit of athletic exercise through life. I do not like those sports which necessitate bodily collision, as well as those that do not. I consider those sports which can be maintained as a man grows older more advantageous...
Goodrich has improved more than any one else since leaving the Charles. He is apt to be not quite supple enough in his motions. He has the habit of rushing a little and is always too anxious to do more than his share of the work. This tires him and he does not stay fresh as long as the others, and consequently loses his command of the crew...
...wish to call attention to one respect in which the privileges of the library are abused by some members of the University. I refer to the habit of marking books. Many books, especially those which are reserved in the reading room, and which all the members of a course have to use, are disfigured throughout by underscorings and marginal lines, and even by marginal comments, which become in some cases little controversies between unknown critics. Aside from the distracting effect of these marks on the reader, causing him involuntarily to emphasize portions usually least important, the practice is morally wrong...
...place in this connection to suggest that the more general and not less careless habit of throwing ink all over the reading-room floor be abandoned. A few spots on the floor seem to invite more and some places are nearly black. A very little care would remedy this had habit...
...seems to me that every young man would do well to read as soon as possible the 10th chapter of James' Psychology, on Habit. This subject is treated in a way that should be helpful from many points of view...