Word: habit
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...athletic activity in which we compete with our brethren from Princeton and Yale, debating has rapidly acquired the prestige which it deserves in view of its vital connection with the public life into which it is but natural that college men should go upon graduation. May "the Harvard habit of winning debates" continue in full vigor...
...teaching of English per se in the preparatory schools much better than my reading of entrance examination papers led me to expect. The deduction seems to be that there is a deficiency in our whole American scheme of education which makes it incapable of training our boys into habits of clear and logical thinking. Without, it no number of parrot-sung rules can avail. With it the writing of good English becomes immediately possible. The two hundred papers which I have read from the pens of English boys reveal at once the habit of clear thought to which their education...
...addition, the exhibit of Oriental tapestries and pottery, the manuscripts and miniature, and Japanese paintings loaned by Mr. Morgan and others, are of great value to the art lover. A good excuse for covertly breaking our lamentable habit of neglect toward all those spheres of voluntary culture not included within our regular courses, is afforded by the rejuvenation of Fogg...
...press and knows from experience that his statement of Harvard's professorial ill-treatment of reporters is as true as it is interesting. R. L. West '14 has given us a good deal of inside information on the training of debating teams to what he calls the "Harvard Habit of Winning Debates." But he has uncovered what we might name the Institute's family skeleton, since, from the behaviour of its present members, we judge that they are ashamed of the fact that such questions as the relative merits of Napoleon and Cromwell were ever argued between its walls...
Nearly one thousand men use the Union every day. In the face of these statistics which are printed in the Union number of the CRIMSON today, the men who are in the habit of calling the Union a failure must modulate their terms. While the total membership for this year has fallen off slightly as compared with last year's figures, it is high enough to indicate that the Union is far from being a failure. Of course, the membership might be increased. But it is probable that a very large proportion of the men who really want...