Word: habitations
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Several years ago, Oklahoma initiated what she considered a valuable banking law. Western banks had shown an irritating habit of failing, and accordingly, the plan developed of having all banks in the State guarantee each other's depositors, by contributing to a common fund which should be used to pay off in full the uncovered debts to depositors of an insolvent bank. This plan spread to several Western States and was enacted into law; it was advocated by the Progressive platform...
...sensible enough. But in America obnoxious laws merely cease to be enforced: they are not repealed, and when contempt for the insignificant, puerile attempts of the law makers results as it must, the derision and disregard of really rational laws is not far off. Obedience to law is a habit and so is disobedience. If the energy of law-making and of law enforcement is to be spent on childish, insincere and unnecessary regulations, the main body of necessary law can not be expected to hold a revered or admired place in American minds...
...letter to the Christian Association, Dr. Grant mentioned his habit of speaking plainly; he may be pleased to know that this is the only kind of speaking which can appeal to the undergraduate. Hedging, platitudinizing, nationalizing may all have uses in justifying antiquated doctrines; but what the student demands is new light, new ideas, a new philosophy which will fit in with his own operations and his own knowledge...
When questioned as to the truth of the charge that some sectionmen take these postals to the office and redeem the, Mr. Stevens was not willing to say that the habit was prevelant, although he did admit that it had been done in few cases...
...strokes at this hour however is not specified and conflicting reports estimate it at from fifty to seventy-two. The significant thing about the seven o'clock bell is that the bellringer dislikes it at least as much as do the students. The average undergraduate soon acquires the habit of sleeping tranquilly until about eight-thirty, bell or no bell--but there is the poor bellringer, tugging away at the stubborn rope, shortly after the coldest hour of the night. And apparently, Mr. Conant is not too enthusiastic about...