Word: habitations
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...high and preparatory schools are released with diplomas would be no more critical in national affairs than the first of January or the Fourth of July were it not for the Commencement address. Once a harmless diversion which elders could not deny themselves, the address has become a dangerous habit more threatening than the Fourth of July oration...
...hardly be avoided, but to offset these disadvantages all that would seem to be necessary is the development of a tradition of bold analysis and liberalism. Nor is it necessary to wait for such a tradition to arise slowly. Discussion, unbiased and unprejudiced, should be able to construct a habit of liberalism in a comparatively short time...
There is much to wonder at in the newly-proclaimed secession of the Isis Saint Louis from the domination of Paris and "bourgeois Commercialism." In America, the habit is clearly to include as many towns, islands, suburbs and cities as possible under a single municipal government. In France, as one may see, these things are done differently--for there are now two independent republes within the Parisian walls--Montmartre, and the Isle Saint Louis...
...Harvard second nine will try to get back in the winning habit this afternoon when it faces Wentworth Institute on Soldiers Field at 4 o'clock in the first home game of the season. Cotter is Coach Stewart's most probable pitching choice, and the rest of the line-up will be unchanged except that Knowlton may be at third base in place of Mann...
...Harvard Professor says shows that others beside foreigners uphold his views. "Nine people out of ten believe that the way to train a boy to think is to impart as much knowledge to him as possible. They do not distinguish between the possession of information and the power or habit of thought; or at any rate they assume that if you can secure the former, the latter follows as a matter of course. In no other field of life do we meet this confusion. No sensible man could think that the way to train a boy to ride...