Word: habitations
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...startling fact that out of the large number of men who will return to college next year only about 200 have as yet signed up for the University Summer Camp. There is no doubt that the small size of this number is largely due to the same deadly habit of procrastination that impels an undergraduate invariably to hand in a thesis in the last half-hour of the allotted time; according to the recent order of Major Flynn such men, if they wait after next Friday, will merely find themselves debarred from positions as officers or non-coms, when...
Those of us who remain in college are still apt to think too much of our personal comforts and pleasures. The theatre-going habit and other expensive forms of amusement have not been over-come as they should have. It is time that we found better and cheaper means of recreation. A great cause is now calling upon us and the response must be unanimous and to the limit. Those who do without unnecessary pleasures will do part of their share. How much greater will be the achievement of those who make a real personal sacrifice...
...little realizing the significance of their changing attitude. They have become Liberty Bond holders, buyers of Thrift Stamps. Many have not known, do not yet know that that which they do for their country in its crucial hour is certain to create a new instinct that of a fixed habit of saving and sound investment...
...generally over 120. Since the class of 1918 moved into the new halls, however, the yearly averages have gradually decreased. The only possible interpretation of this fact is that the distance from the dormitories to Appleton Chapel has kept the succeeding Freshman classes from forming the chapel-going habit. An entire generation of college classes has now lived in the dormitories and this habit has consequently been lost. If not formed during a man's first year in college it is difficult to form...
...that brief paragraph--who appears to have been too yellow to sign his own name to it--on the success of his little hoax. But it might be well to remind him, at the same time, that unpleasant things have been known to happen to people that acquire the habit of using other persons' signatures without their consent...