Word: habitations
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Bulletin is worthy of much consideration. The criticism applies particularly to those courses open to Freshmen, and is so applied by the author of the Communication, Mr. George Woodbridge. Undergraduates who have been at the University for a year or more, or even for a few months, form a habit of asking other undergraduates about the content of a course. Thence evolves the neo-professional informer who has every "snap" and "stiff" course at his finger-tips. For this reason the old student pays no heed to the meagre one or two lines of description which go with the majority...
...believe that there is a tendency among the better business men of Britain towards a distinct preference for men with liberal education rather than specialized vocations. It is a movement which I believe will grow. In the past, men of business have feared some lack of a steady habit of application among liberally-educated University graduates. Now they are finding that there is no reason to suspect this result: a man who has done well in one of the University's honor schools will probably do his work harder and faster than most men of his own age brought...
...rumored that the President's dislike for making known his views will extend even to the giving up of his daily walks at 6:30 a. m. Certain politicians, discovering the President's habit, expressed a mutual liking for matutinal exercise. Mr. Coolidge has horseback riding for alternative, an occupation less adapted to confidential conversation...
...football are ushered in. Gloom emanates daily from New Haven on account of the ineligible Sophomores and from Princeton for some other well-known reason. But pre-season gloom from the camps of the enemy is a customary phenomenon to the football world. Coach Roper has a bad habit of fooling most of the people until about November first by predicting chaos for his team, and at Yale championship Freshman teams always dwindle to nothingness in the autumn of their sophomore year. Beyond reporting the extraordinary number of candidates few prognostications are being made at the University. But Coach Fisher...
Scientists say the new stimulant has the advantage, over alcohol and alkaloids, of being a natural factor in bodily processes. It is non-intoxicating and non-habit-forming. Since the War " it has been given to miners, laborers (up to a quarter ounce per day), horses, oxen with good effect...