Word: habitant
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...metallic discord of summons. Seven hundred men have learned that the morning and the evening are the day; and the morning has grown, like the tale of a submarine's exploits, to twice the normal size, while the evening is evanescent. Seven hundred men have acquired the habit of seeing how the great city looks before the subways to Boston are running, and the Cambridge police force, taking up the burden the stars have left off, resumes his diurnal beat. Seven hundred men have seen with Pippa the morning at seven; although the lark and the snail are missing from...
...abstaining during the war. We do not wish to urge a resolution so unalterable against a man's own conscience. Yet the effect by example would be tremendous on the philistine world. It would serve as a mark for those to whom abstinence would require the breaking of a habit rather than the denial of a sporadic amusement...
...Lippitt in his article treats us to one of those mathematical demonstrations of our country's state of "despicable weakness" by land and sea, with which we became so well acquainted during the preparedness agitation of last year. We look from force of habit for a description of the bombardment of New York and details of the atrocities of spike-helmeted invaders. However, the article shows us the impossibility of ever reaching an end of an armament race when no nation is content to rank less than first or a close second. We can only hope that when the present...
Obedience is not instinctive, as any father of a family can testify. There are, to be sure, American families in which the habit of obedience has been enforced for several generations and discipline has been one of the gifts of inheritance. But the number of such families has been rapidly decreasing under modern social influences. The soldier must be taught obedience. That is the chief, though not the only, object of military training. The hardest problem this nation confronts on the threshold of war is not the recruiting of soldiers, but their training. It is useless to wail over neglected...
...habit of obedience is unhappily too rare among the youth of this country. To this defect in their education may be traced much of the inefficiency and lack of method which too often characterize them in manhood. Our American youth stand in imperative need of military training, which alone may inculcate lessons of obedience, self-control, discipline, initiative and efficiency in teamwork...