Word: habit
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...call to serve man drew him to the Law School. "His labors both as professor and administrator were very much increased by his habit of holding himself at the disposal of any student or any teacher at any time. He was always accessible." To express the source of inspiration which he was to one of his older pupils, who never saw Mr. Ames after graduating from the school, Mr. Williston quotes this letter...
...frequently so completely ignored that the grade of A is given on a paper in which the sense is almost obscured by the fine scorn of the first elements of composition. The only way in which a man may hope to write good, clear English is by acquiring the habit of so doing. And it is perfectly useless to put him through a year or more of training in composition if he loses the habit as soon as he completes the course, for the mere reason that respectable English is not insisted upon in his later work. That...