Word: habitations
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...find him an American queen. Another report has it that he wished to make King Boris abdicate so that he could become King of Bulgaria. The greatest value of these yarns, as they probably are, is that they faithfully portray the character of the man. He was in the habit of speaking with almost brutal directness, i. e., his warning to King Ferdinand in September, 1915: " If you plunge this country and its peace-loving people into an unnecessary war, Sir," he said, " you will pay for it with your head and your throne. The blood of the people will...
...Hamilton (professor of economics under Dr. Meiklejohn), who has just left Amherst: "Education by ritual gives slavery to those who cry for freedom. The man who has been habituated to doing what another says cannot choose worthwhile things for himself to do. The man who has fallen into the habit of accepting opinions upon authority cannot form opinions for himself- and the greatest tragedy of all is that those who are enslaved by ritual- since they have never known freedom -do not perceive the nature of their own bondage...
...street" has a lackadaisical habit of lumping with the American Federation of Labor, socialists, "Reds", anarchists, and hoodlums who make high revel with brickbats. Of this view, so widely held, Mr. Woll's article, which appears in this issue, is a complete refutation. With clarity and vigor he has pointed out that the A. F. L. is not a helpless ward of the state but a buxom, independent part of it, not an enemy but a supporter of the present capitalistic order, not a body with untested theories but one with policies matured out of experience. He has wasted...
...Wonder. Lord Byron seemed to find it otherwise.) His intermittent polysyllables, recurring everlastingly along his fluid lines, at first amuse, but habit gives them a likeable distinctiveness; and certainly for suavity they lend an air of dignified austerity. If Mr. Robinson could claim to be American's first poet before he wrote this latest book, he still can claim that honor--although one questions if his title to it will be increased by "Roman Bartholow:"--for excellence at verse and excellence at portraiture alone don't make a poet. . . . And as for verse, what is it more than prose...
...figures for locker rentals show that undergraduates have been taking an increasing amount of athletic exercise during the winter months of the past few years, and this seems to indicate that the requirement of exercise for freshmen develops a habit which tends to stay with the men during the rest of their college course. A good sign has been the increased popularity of squash racquets which, from being a game known only to few, has grown until last winter an average of about 500 played it every day. The reservation sheet is posted each morning at 8.45; before that time...