Word: habitations
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...This habit which France has of rewarding her artists in the same manner as her heroes is one which we may well admire. America is inclined to shy at the idea of associating its literature, its music, its drama in any way with the government, and the government is equally hesitant to become their patron. The American theory is that art is an individual and a non-essential matter; the government deals only with necessities. France considers its art to be as much a part of the national life, and so of the national need as education or even military...
...period? Or is concentration a desirable so rare that a little of it will off-set a lot of the baser stuff of persistent application? The foreshortening of an obligation of four months to a comparatively few hours is only too likely to foster carelessness and a procrastinating habit of mind that will have little opportunity in later life to concentrate on anything, except a method of letting things slide by with the least possible annoyance. Such is not practical...
...become a habit to explain "Harvard Indifference" as nothing more than a tendency to mind one's own business. That explanation is, after all, an excellent one. It is strictly in keeping with Professor James's famous Harvard ideal, which sees the University as a sort of "Fields of the Blessed" where each comer may pursue his own desires without the compulsion or the hindrance of what his fellows may be doing or thinking...
...become a habit with Americans in the last few years to cram into lecture halls to hear some distinguished Englishman,--newly-arrived on his first visit to the United States,--talk on his opinion of them. After which, the lecturer gathers together his gate receipts, goes home, and publishes a profitable volume on "Impressions in America" which satisfies him and which is eagerly bought on the western side of the water. Nothing could be fairer...
...need of a certain amount of discipline. But when it is carried too far there are these two inevitable tendencies: (1) that the students are so absorbed in following the trails of the professors, they hardly have any time left for their creative impulse to operate. By formulating this habit, they will undoubtedly in the course of time become perfect phonographic records, and will make no noise unless they are pinned; (2) or they get so bored with the endless requirements, that they decide not to suffer any discipline. Eventually they may spoil their whole life because of this. Good...