Word: habitations
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...study, and furnishing a more adequate test of real power and attainment. To this end students are being assigned special tutors, who will guide men in their respective fields of study, assist them in co-ordinating the knowledge derived from different courses, and stimulate in them the reading habit...
...results of the triangular debates last night show the vitality of debating as a field of competition between the three eastern rivals, Princeton, Yale, and Harvard. Some years ago it was the University's habit to win with fair regularity; and, even with the divided honors of recent years, the University still leads its two opponents in total number of victories: Harvard has won nineteen debates against Yale to Yale's seven, and thirteen to Princeton's nine. Since the triangular system was established in 1909, however, the score has been more even, but with the University still leading...
...shown how he himself is trained, and later how he is fitted into the general scheme of a huge fighting machine. The discussion, which takes five chapters, treats not only the technical side of drill and organization, but also touches on the by-products of military training,--military habit, discipline, efficiency, self-confidence, self-control, orderliness, loyalty, and obedience...
...Harvard Club seven was utterly lacking in team-work, while the University players negotiated several good passes. Baldwin played well, although his tendency yesterday was to keep the puck to himself too much. He also has a habit of using only one hand on his stick a great deal of the time, which handicaps his handling of the puck. Baker, in Curtis's place at left centre, also played a good game. Murray Taylor '18, who played on the Freshman team last year, but has not been able to come out for the squad this year until recently...
...soon as we assume, however, that we are to be drawn into war against our own will, as soon as we urge the need of preparedness against a specific or unknown potential enemy, we have fallen into the European habit of thought. If we are right in that Europe has been right, Germany has been right. Indeed, there is not a European country that has not had a better reason for preparedness than the United States. If we are to profit by the fate of certain unprepared countries," however, we can do it only by imitating France and Germany...