Word: habitant
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...colleges are reduced in size, less attention to the qualification of applicants for admission might be given, with a rigid elimination later of those who cannot keep the pace, or who do not prove capable of doing the work well. That sounds reasonable, but anyone, who is in the habit of conducting a class knows that the pace depends upon the students as well as the instructor, and that to add to a class even a small proportion of men less competent than the rest inevitably slows the pace for all. In all human affairs, it is only the selected...
Ultimately the money will come in; it always does, for we have a habit of coming through finally in everything we undertake, but the problem is to raise that sum and do it now. It ought to be unnecessary to have to send collectors around to the delinquents, but even that torture may have to be resorted to unless something radical occurs. We have to get that missing $4,000 in to Phillips Brooks House immediately, or at least let them know why we have not paid. We do not want to get the "scrap of paper" attitude toward pledges...
...drop in the bucket we must fill before we can become officers. There have been times when the thermometer was around zero and bed seemed more attractive than Soldiers Field; we have of weakness, but the systematic skipping is the symptom of a D or an F man. A habit of this kind grows, and when such men get their chance to become officers they will not only know less than their companions in arms, but they will also have bad habits to conquer...
...hidden so much we would not find the "inexpensive sunlight" satisfactory to rise by or even take notes by at the hour of eight. As for actual earlier retiring, there still remains the same amount of study and after all, the time of retiring is dependent on habit developed through years and changed, if ever, only with extreme difficulty...
...habit of men (who are cursed with memory and imagination) to romanticize over the past, or to idealize the future. That age in which we live is but a barren period set between sparks of brave accomplishment. It would be well, all men say, to have lived when Napoleon lived; and empires were upbuilded in a day; or to live in succeeding centuries, when man will know, and be master of himself...