Word: habitations
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Musicians were surprised by his resignation, music lovers shocked. In part, this was because Dr. Damrosch has held his post so long (42 years) that people are in the habit of considering him as permanent as Carnegie Hall. In part, it was because his handsome, aristocratic figure has come to symbolize in many minds the elegant formality that people love to associate with "art." But mostly, it is because his music means more than clothes and calenda...
With the approach of Christmas there comes what, for the Student Vagabond an least has become a habit, a sine quanon of the season. This is the performance of Handel's Messiah. Without an afternoon or evening spent under the majestically beautiful power of this great work Christmas would seem to be lacking in some particular. Under its spell everything else is forgotten and from the mighty strength of the "Hallelujah Chorus," and the clear burning faith of the aria. "I knew that my Redeemer liveth," from the entire work as a whole there comes over into the listener something...
...already been pointed out that the University Theatre, if it has not become a tradition, has at least become a habit. The Harvard character, whatever that may be, has always revealed itself in many aspects, but perhaps it has never thrown itself open to analysis as frankly as it has at this new entire of entertainment. Some people, particularly the college officials, feared that the new theatre in our midst would lead to indolence and waste of time; others, especially the managers of the theatre, saw hopes of giving the Harvard boys some clean and healthy entertainment to take their...
...feel that it is his Alma Mater bucking the line, and not he, is worth more on the gridiron than his fellow of even greater strength and speed who in his subconscious represents only himself. This explains why certain institutions, often with scanty or inferior material, have the habit of turning out winning football tean's. With all due salaams to Bill Roper, it explains why Princeton has that habit...
...really, after an argument in the woods that kept the wedding guests on tenterhooks, Cordelia's love for Preston was sufficient to bend her honor into the lie that made Sally say, "I will not," proud and slender at the altar in her royal blue broadcloth riding habit with glass buttons...