Word: habitations
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...certain number of professors here-abouts have a most curious and annoying habit of changing their text books nearly every semester, even when the courses offered remain essentially unaltered from year to year. This tendency is particularly noticeable in courses where the text book has been prepared by the professor himself, though it is by no means confined solely to them...
...whom studies are the summum bonum, it is painful to contemplate the pamphlet known as "Courses of Instruction" and consider what a small fraction of possible education he is able to take. But in either case it has to be done, and done at once. Our familiar habit of leaving everything until the last possible moment in this case is a serious disadvantage. Unless one is certain in advance what courses he expects to take, there is a large amount of pencil-chewing and page-turning to be done; in any case there is an adviser to be consulted...
...undergraduate, routine work, routine attendance, and routine examinations heighten this general tendency. All these factors have had a restraining effect upon independent intellectual endeavor. The stimulus to such effort is deadened by the continual pressure of every-day requirements. Then, too, many professors have slipped into the habit of assuming only a routine interest on the part of their pupils. Such a habit naturally leads them to confine themselves merely to the most conventional remarks. The by-ways of information will not be pointed out if those by-ways are not sought after. That there are a few notable exceptions...
...order, therefore, to keep them in good condition for the two principal games with Princeton and Yale at the close of the season it has been the habit to keep out of the games with other colleges some, or in many cases all of the members of the first eleven, playing in fact a second team. This has been a source of complaint. To arrange a match with another college and then not put on the field our regular team, but an eleven composed of substitutes, has been criticised as unsportsmanly; and yet what else can be done...
...parrot-student" may have increased his knowledge, but unless he can put that knowledge to work, he is still sadly lacking in true education. On the other hand, the man who has a fair estimate of the work required, and who has cultivated in addition the habit of using his head, will very rarely flunk out. What is even more, he will have acquired a power that the "parrot-student" can never know...