Word: habitable
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...just come to light that members of the Cambridge Bicycle Club have been in the habit of practicing on the Holmes Field track at five o'clock in the morning, a somewhat unusual hour. As no permission has been given this club to avail itself of the track, the action of some of its members would seem to exhibit a degree of "nerve" that is rather surprising...
...social habit of drinking is essentially vulgar. "The manhood of man is lessened" as he becomes more appreciative of the superiority of French wines manufactured especially for the American market. Intemperance stands pre-eminent among the evils known to civilized nations, and is, moreover, the foundation of a great part of the other evils. In Europe, where formerly nobody got drunk because everybody drank, the cry is arising in almost every country, both on account of drunkenness, and on account of the adulteration of liquors France herself has become frightened and from an analysis of 1700 samples of what...
...seem to be made the especial sufferers by these persons, and even the magazines do not escape being occasionally found with short articles clipped from them. It ought to be unnecessary to pass any such comment as the above on students here at Harvard for this childish and annoying habit, but the frequency with which one comes across their acts leads us to again mention...
...There is the evil of betting. This is not an evil peculiar to athletics. The men in college who are in the habit of betting would continue to bet on something else, if not a game were played nor a race rowed. Gambling would increase if the athletics were prohibited. Games and races in colleges do not create betting. They simply divert it from other channels...
...fairly meet the demands of the case. We cannot see the necessity of placing such restructions-prohibitory in some cases-upon the athletic sports of a large number of colleges, simply for the purpose of helping forward the reformation of certain collegiate foot-ball players who are in the habit of kicking each other instead of the ball...