Word: habit
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...allowed only two hits, and passed only 3 men to first base on balls, that the Freshmen won. For their batting is still as weak as it has been throughout the season. The men have not proven themselves able to hit the ball, but have the habit of letting their pitcher win or lose the game for them...
...purport is clear enough, the mood is undeniably poetic, and it touches the imagination. Like much modern poetry it has the virtue of bringing agreeable to mind its literary ancestors, in this case the sonnets of Rosetti. It is to be regretted, however, that besides Rosetti's habit of luxurious concrete visualization. Mr. Wheelock has not more of his music and subtle artistry...
...Reminiscences of Literary Men," Colonel Higginson talked mainly of literary men he had met in his youth, and told numerous anecdotes about James. Russell Lowell '38, Ralph Waldo Emerson '21 and Oliver Wendell Holmes '61. Mr. Higginson and Mr. Lowell became fast friends when children. They were in the habit of going to various lectures together, and while at one of these Mr. Higginson became acquainted with Emerson...
Professor R. H. Chittenden of Yale University will deliver an illustrated lecture in the Living Room of the Union, this evening at 8 o'clock, on "Reason and Intellect vs. Custom and Habit in the Nutrition...
...lectures on the "Nutrition of Man" under the auspices of the Lowell Institute in Boston, will give an illustrated lecture to the members of the Union in the Living Room tomorrow night at 8 o'clock. The subject of the lecture will be "Reason and Intellect vs. Custom and Habit in the Nutrition...