Word: habitations
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Ethically, the proposition is all wrong. The man who is able to slide by in class, and knows that he is not doing the expected work, tends to form such a habit. This habit will grow and take in greater and more important things. Most men who do this thing know that it is wrong but their ethical standards are abstract, not a part of everyday life. They are to be dragged out and burnished occasionally but never used...
College develops taste because a man has his best chance there of mingling with those of high cultural standards. By this is implied nothing artificial or poseur, but a natural, easy habit of seeing the best things in their best lights, and through an atmosphere of ideas. After college these opportunities come rarely to the American. Community life not being, as a rule, culturally bracing, the influences which from taste are few. If a man doesn't meet them in college he seldom meets them anywhere. With a foundation for the principles of taste no small part...
...Intercollegiate Liberal League, above all, stands for the open mind and the open and free discussion of our problems. Certainly no straight thinking man could be opposed to such a program. It is obvious that too many of us are not in the habit of collecting all the facts before making a decision and it is this very problem, as I see it, that is the most difficult one to solve. If we can only encourage people to gather all the facts before concluding, many of our other problems will take care of themselves; if our college students, the future...
...poor on account of the shortage of cereals, but the bills of fare showed native wines at very low prices in terms of our money. The largest of the Berlin beer halls is partly closed and partly converted to other uses. Afternoon tea,-or chocolate,--has become an established habit, and at appropriate hours the tea rooms both at the downtown hotels and elsewhere are crowded...
...entered here was clean, and newly and attractively upholstered, both seat-coverings and curtains being of paper fabric, as in nearly all the cars in Germany. To avoid a wrong impression one should say that the returning of tips or their refusal was not found to be a habit, despite the stringent national anti-tipping law; and that most of the cars had dingy and well worn paper-cloth upholstery, and were not very well cleaned. The Sleeper which we were fortunate enough to get at Dusseldorf had somewhat this dingy appearance, but the sheets and blankets and a good...